[pmwiki-users] Spam status and suggestion for PmWiki.org

Patrick R. Michaud pmichaud at pobox.com
Tue Oct 10 14:53:44 CDT 2006


On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 11:44:55AM -0400, David Spitzley wrote:
> On a different spam-related note, has anybody else run into problems
> with some of the words in the blocklist preventing longer words from
> being used, even if they are added as an unblock entry?  In particular,
> I find that the "cialis" block keeps interfering with "specialist", and
> just recently "licab" threw up a block to "applicable".  At the same
> time, if I remove "cialis", I get spam with that word in it leaking
> through.  Does anybody have a suggestion for how to unblock full words
> while leaving the fragments blocked? 

If you're using the blocklist code that comes in 2.2.0-beta, then
you can do regex blocks such as:

    regex: /\bcialis/
    regex: /\blicab/

which says to block "cialis" and "licab" only if they're
at the beginning of a word.

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