It's too simplistic to work by itself. Add it as a factor in the Junk Filter and
maybe it would be useful, otherwise people will be shooting themselves in the
foot all over the place. Hashes, on the other hand, are an absolute
identification of specific files and therefore more reliable.

Maybe not for stopping junk, worms etc, but when I'm looking for a (very) large file, it would be useful to be able to filter the size to remove relivant, but unwanted results. As part an advanced search it would be more than useful.

I just been marking all the obviously sus files as junk and setting the filter to not show junk. Also the the keywords option in filters is useful for cutting out things/sources you don't want to see. Supplementary question... if I mark a file as junk on my system, does that get rolled out over the network?

No. It stays on your machine to filter your own searches.
If it was propagated over the network it would be open to abuse.

It's probably unfeasible, but it would brilliant to have a "report file" system, when the client reports the file as junk, it's checked out, and if found to be junk, the hash is automaticly downloaded to all limewire clients to be used as part of their junk filter.. you could even (server side) store the file as it's hash which would easily allow you to check/disguard multiple reports of the same file..

may take a bit of time at first, but I'm sure after a while it would also act as a deterent to potential spammers.

But like I said, a lot of work.

Ed

Not only that, but unscrupulous people like the MAFIAA would seize on the
capability and get courts to force developers to pervert it to their own ends.

This is why control must be left to the individual and collective operations must
be kept voluntary, like Bitzi.

Upcoming anti-spam and anti-malware capabilities will be user operated, and it
will be up to users to decide whether or not to trust the various sources of
the blocklists they can find.

My feelings exactly.......It's called self-reliance and or individual responsibility.
People now days just seem to want way to much done FOR them in lieu of taking care of it themselves. Just give me the tools..I'll do it myself. I don't intent any offense by this post so please don't take any.

None taken. We all want the same thing here, and I'm perfectly happy to use the tools myself. I'm just thinking about the software and possible ways it could be improved, but yeah, I see where you're coming from.
I suppose I'm just trying to find ways around that, as it would make Limewire more "professional" and modern security wise. Could such a service be made optional, thus still volentry? That way, the legal route would seem less appealing as it could just be turned on/off, and even if the legal route was taken over the automatic downloading, it could be used to market limewire as a safe/secure way to distrubute music legally for users that would be worried by the prospect of ilegal downloads. Those less worried could just turn the service off. Or if it even got to that stage it would be well within your rights to make it a subscription service for the users of the professional software only, thus killing it off as no one would want it.

I have a feeling it's just one of those arguments I'm not going to win though, so I'll go back to the drawing board!

Ed

This makes me have to ask why the junkrating on many GOOD files in my searches have a junkrating of 15-35 % ??

In the whole time that the junkfilter has been in the program I have marked 3 134.4 KB files as junk and maybe 10 of the 851.7 KB ones. Then why would the junkrating show on 700 MB files that I know are good ?? Shouldn't that be 0% then

All these files are good:



Better make that 51%

Me I LOVE tools so I have no problem with any LimeWire cares to offer. I don't think I've ever won any arguments in any forum I've ever been in. Nor do I think has anyboby else. So don't woory about it. lol