Sam & Greg,
I don't think I've opened up any feature to spammers, etc. LimeWire is open source so any so called vulnerabilities are open to the world. The limewire.org website talks about open protocols and open networks - lets not backtrack on that ideal. Also, security by obfuscation (i.e., lets hope people don't figure stuff out) is never good policy.

I absolutely agree that gnutella spam should be detected and discarded like any other spam. I don't agree that LimeWire should make the decision about what is offered to users though - doesn't that get away from the ideals of decentralization and openness? As I've made clear, we don't spam - we offer relevant, targeted ads similar to Google AdWords.

Greg, gnutella is already open to spammers, as you know. If you want to get rid of spammers, close the source.

Adding a warning to a user prior to launching the html page is the correct course of action. Also, don't other open source projects, such as LionShare, depend on this feature?

Thanks!
Susheel