[pmwiki-users] Core Spam Blcok Thoughts

[Wendell Brown]

Neil Herber wrote:
> At 2006-04-05  01:07 PM -0500, Wendell Brown is rumored to have said:
>> Adding a spam block to the core that is turned off by default or with 
>> a default basic block list is going to be a major help to those of us 
>> that maintain our wiki's, but it's not going to cut down on overall 
>> abuse of pmwiki by spammers.
>
> Wendell
>
> I don't see how MTBlocklist addresses this problem better than 
> Blocklist2. By this problem, I mean having blocklist code that is 
> turned off by default or blocklists that are not maintained. Although 
> MTBlocklist *may* appear to address the latter, I note that it stopped 
> working at one point when the remote blocklist server died or was killed.

Actually I meant turn on blocking by default but have it set to use the 
pmwiki specific list that is automatically downloaded not more than once 
a day (and yes, one of the possibly block list sites went off line and 
the script didn't handle it well - that has been corrected).  But 
Patrick has said that he is opposed to automatic updates to the block 
list, so this is probably a moot point.