@dennyhayes, the Limewire p2p client is open sourse and so theres no reason for you not to add your expertese to the development.. I have to say that I'm not a developer but know that the search function on a Java p2p client is not the same as Google, and also that in all the time I have been using Limewire, I have of course come up with poor search results, same as everyone, but I have learned to search for suitable terms and to read the difference between good and bad results. I have not btw been aware that it is possible to search for a particular file size.
Look ..we've been asking for a decent size filter forever. I'm sure with your expertese you could knock one up for us no problem.
www.limewire.org needs you
@mrbassbone you have clearly done a bit of constuctive looking at the problem and know what the junk filter is for. All I would suggest is that banning ip numbers is a fairly fruitless task as spammers' ip numbers tend to change all the time. The junk flter does however work well once you have "trained" it to do what you want as I hope you have found