You will partly stop routing search queries and eighther make the network inoperable or less operable. If a freeloader is between you and a sharer of a file you want, you never get it with your routing rules.

Superpeers and query caches can help to reduce traffic, while freeloader are usually modem users they can be shielded behind a super peer. See also my list of Anti-freeloading features for alternative ideas against freeloading http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...9&pagenumber=3

Greets, Moak