[pmwiki-users] Core Spam Blcok Thoughts

H. Fox haganfox at users.sourceforge.net
Thu Apr 20 10:44:10 CDT 2006


On 4/19/06, Crisses <crisses at ofobscurity.com> wrote:
>
> On Apr 19, 2006, at 7:20 PM, Neil Herber wrote:
> > At 2006-04-19  06:44 PM -0400, Crisses is rumored to have said:
> >> I know of one PmWiki installation that died -- the owner believes the
> >> blocklist was the reason.  Indeed, getting the blocklist page to come
> >> up was one of the major problems.
> >
> > Hagan Fox created a version of Blocklist2 which he called "cmsb-
> > blocklist.php".
>
> I don't see Hagan's recipe...wouldn't it be under the Security
> section in the Cookbook?

It's just an uploaded file.

  http://pmwiki.org/pmwiki/uploads/Cookbook/cmsb-blocklist.php

IMHO fixing the overzealous matching of multi-word phrases is more
important than adding regex support.  As it is now, something like

  block:buy somedrug

matchs the word "buy".  See the history of pmwiki.org's Blocklist page
for examples.

Hagan




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