Request: Add a hard-coded feature to ban a small list of frequently spammed words that have little utility other than to increase "denial of service" type traffic on gnutellanet.

The toggle would let users with slow processors turn the feature off. Because it would be available as a default option on gnotella, the chances are good that users will employ it in addition to the manually-entered list in order to fight the denial of service attacks done via the Search tool.

It would be useful to users to have a reduction in the number of spam words causing search processing to occur. For example, the following appears with cyclical frequency due to deliberate DOS:

"a mp3" through "z mp3"
"mp3", "*.mp3", etc.
"zip", "*.zip", ".zip", etc
"asf", etc
"mpg", etc
etcetera

Searches for these words are not very useful and their data just shoots around until their TTL kills off the message. It is apparant from the cyclical appearance of these searches that the originator has abandoned the search and is just issuing them to slow down the whole network.

I agree, supposedly some kind of similar feature is in .72 due out in a day or two. Although I suggest this way:
Take the string "a .mp3"
Take out any non-alpha numeric characters "amp3"
If its 4 or less characters drop it.

That would weed out all those searches.

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FunOne