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Old December 10th, 2002
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Originally posted by efield
If a download goes into "requery sent" it searches more broadly than the exact query you entered. Sometimes LimeWire will download a file that matches part of your query but is not related to what you actually wanted.
LimeWire searches for the name of the file you are downloading when requerying or for its hash. It's very unlikely it will download anything it you did not request, since most clients hash their files and the probability of two different files having the same hash is something like 1 over 2^160.
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