Your salvation is coming. I have already gathered the hashes of all those worms
and spam and upcoming versions of LimeWire and other gnutella servents will be
using the lists to block them from your searches.

That's good news. Good for you. Seeing as how it has been going on so long I was starting to wonder if it were even possible to do anything about it.

Salvation indeed Can't wait! It is getting to the stage these files are seriously messing up limewire.

A file size filter would be the finest though!

Question for those who have voted no --- why?

Ian

I would vote yes ....but?

what prevents the creators of these files from say....doubling the size?

for instance we know a file size of 197.kb is not a song, but if they change the size to 500.kb or 1000.kb. some songs ARE actually short (or small)

i don't know how they make these files, but i assume because they are all small that that's the most productive? prudent? size? but if they ARE filtered out i'm sure they WILL try something else, or something bigger.

as usual, it's not the "product" so much as the "procurer".

i would love to see all bad (s***) files gone from LW, the only way that will happen is if people stop DL that S***!!!!!

we don't need a filter so much as a ban on idiots that share that crap.

the one filter that we really need is a filter to weed out the dumba**es that use LW.

p.s. if the shoe fits, get off LW, and take your s*** with you!

Does it do any good to block the hosts that are carrying the 197.7 files and others like it or is it a waste of time. I've been doing that but it is time consuming since there are so many of them.

Thats why the list would be good

I don't bother blocking them. Just don't download them

Nor do I.
It's just gotten that MOST of the time that's ALL I get on a search.
I was just wondering if it would help cut down on it some.

A combination of the Block lists and a file size filter would help a great deal I'm sure.

Here are some tips on how to bypass some of the spam

How to find music

As I've feared, LimeWire has become useless. I now rarely get ANY files that are not corrupted.

Patience & some skill helps! Learn from your previous errors.