I swear these modified nodes suck balls. And the worst thing is, there are people who download the spam and forget about it. ok, i can live with that part, but...

on a search for something totally obscure today...

12 hosts came up with spam crap. most of it is anti-privacy software, some of it is completely stupid.

blocking these hosts doesn't seem to do any good, they are 'honeypots' to attract people to see what they search for and spam their stuff or just record ip addresses.

its a pain in the ***, its the one thing i would want implemented more then anything else in a client; spam recognition and blocking. Since the file sizes are always similar, the client should just send out a few blind searches and see what hosts come up with stuff, and then create a list of spammers that each new node that connects can just block them.