sdsalsero, FWIW, I have been able to leave LW 2.9.8.2 unattendend for 6-8 hours and some files have completed. I do have to spend a lot of time setting up a blocked host list (to filter the spam results that mask good sources), and try to build up a list of good alternates by using narrow searches.

Yeah, I'd like to see automatic requeries back if they couldn't be abused by spammers who flood the network with spurious results. Maybe requeries for narrow searches (less than 10 results) as a decreasing average of previous manual searches?

I think Acq .84 has temporarily brought back limited automatic requeries, but I think newer Ultrapeers have some logic to block clients that use automatic requeries.