Hello,

Thank you for your response, but we can agree to disagree on the need for something like this for three simple reasons:

1) Filtering out WMV and JPEG is unacceptable. Not everyone uses LW to leech MP3. I actively seek these media type, amoung others, and am bombarded by spam. Having to manually and individually consult Magnet to check content validity, is time-consuming in the extreme.

2) No one is forcing anyone to click my suggested (non-default) BLOCK ALL IPs RETURNED BY SELECTED SEARCH LIST RESULT ITEM. This is purely a convenience for those of us who choose to do something, rather than roll over and play dead. Spammers LOVE an attitude of complacency, but they poison everything they touch. They killed Usenet, they're killing Gnutella, they're building up on Torrents. I apologize for not understanding your complacency on the matter. Your cited technical reason *is* sound, but why not give us paid users a choice to control how we use our software? I would like to ban all the spammers too stupid to constantly rotate their IPs. That is my choice. My feature request was merely to have a small enhancement to a simple and existing tool . As it is now though, BLOCK HOST is useless for this purpose. As for my losing possible hosts offering desired content because they are on a blocked host, I am willing to accept that risk for myself. A blocked host only applies to MY client, and has no effect on yours or others. It's about choice, and the tools to manage our own affairs. And there simply is no good reason why we should not have that choice. It's also a choice for parents to block all reference to a particular search term too. Doesn't apply to me, but I support the freedom of parents to choose.

3) Rolling over and playing dead for spammers only makes the problem worse. USEnet is USEless, with groups flooded with spam and ads we pay for in download time (when headers hide their advertising content.) Yet we still see in all newsgroup readers, the OPTION to killfile a spammers address, even tho they create accounts daily there too. But for that day, at least, I will not have to suffer that set of jerkoffs.

It's not as if I'm not trying to solve the problem. I have a full HOSTS file on the O/S, blocking ads for browser, and use a P2P blocklist (Peer Guardian 2) with all known spammers added. But it's not enough... These cretins are ruining the internet, and calls for imprisonment and executions are growing in number.

Thank you for your time though. Won't you please help petition LimeWire, LLC to add this?