One method of blocking much spam & connecting directly to spam ultrapeers

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I would like to recommend PeerGuardian to all Phex users. You may find a considerable improvement in not getting quite so many spam results. Some people are perhaps unaware you may at times be directly connected to a spammer ultrapeer & all your searches go through them. They respond with flooding your search results with spam & thus limiting your search horizon & overall genuine search results.

Phex users who are running in Ultrapeer mode, may notice a major improvement in performance & this will also greatly improve the overall Gnutella performance if everyone is filtering out these spammers. The user example below suggested to me in private message that some of these spammers were 'stealing' bandwidth as soon as they connected to him. My guess is their uploading of flooding spam with multiple copies. There may also be attempts to falter the performance of ultrapeers on the gnutella network by such spammers.

Read the effect for a LimeWire user who normally connects as an ultrapeer: http://www.gnutellaforums.com/open-d...unk-files.html. This user checked those ip's via a bad ip's site & found most were on the list & reknown bad ip's used for spamming sites & forums, etc. It appears PeerGuardian uses a similar list of blocking bad ip's.