[pmwiki-users] Core Spam Blcok Thoughts
Wendell Brown
wbrown at arkie.net
Wed Apr 5 14:47:34 CDT 2006
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.
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