About wildcards and search-term you'll have to ask GregorK.

Filtering private IPs isn't somethign I'd do, though. I often get quite good downloads from them (the PushProxy extension works quite well).

Besides: Welcome to the Phex Forums!

Best wishes and happy sharing!
Arne

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