Thanks, @mhertz. Reading more closely now, it's clear why this thread is tops. Checking releases, 2.0.3 dates back 6 (six!) years, and much of the core activity to well before that. It appears the plugin's author has not been active in a long time (at least, not by the posted name). New to this proj...

This thread (comes up tops in page rank and) describes a bug that persists to at least release 2.0.3; libtorrent 2.0.8.0. To replicate, I first updated to latest LMDE, then gzipped existing blocklist file used successfully in two transmission variants (plain text, bluetack, peerGuardian, etc. format...