Well, we don't have to have any manual blocking. My way around it then would be to use any gnutella client that let me spam a whole bunch of repeated keywords and then everyone else on gnutellanet would AUTOMATICALLY add that keyword to their banned list.

I am tempted to do that right now in order to get rid of all these "*.mpg", "*.zip", ".zip", ".asf", etcetera, wasteful "denial of service (DOS)" searches that are appearing via the Monitor function. I know that they are DOS because they keep appearing in cyclic fashion from someone's automated robot. I am also seeing a lot of "a mp3", "b mp3", "c mp3", etcetera types of searches in cyclic fashion too. Whoever is doing this is pretty clever. They're starting to use a lot of asterisks in their keywords to avoid the exact name matching of people's filters.

In my feeble attempts to filter out these spammers trying to reduce gnutellanet, I end up setting 1 outgoing, 5 incoming connections in the hopes that more people would use the filtered feed from my machine. *sigh*

No one has comments on these spammers? It is almost like the RIAA or MPAA is practicing Denial of Service tactics. I thought DOS was illegal for them to practice on internet?