[pmwiki-users] MT-Blacklist

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Sat, Aug 19, 2006 at 12:54:11PM -0400, Neil Herber wrote:
> At 2006-08-19  09:52 AM -0500, Patrick R. Michaud is rumored to have said:
> >As we discussed earlier in the year, PmWiki really ought to
> >have blocklisting built in to the core, so I'm planning to
> >add that soon.  Having looked at the mt-blacklist.php recipe
> >a bit it's likely that I'll include some sort of "shared blocklist"
> >capabilities as well, and host a blocklist on pmwiki.org (that
> >can be used in addition to other blocklists).
> >
> >Any other comments or thoughts?
> 
> My 2 cents worth: make the core blocklist something like Hagan's 
> csmb-blocklist script which has proved to be 99.9% effective for me.

I'm planning to incorporate both the csmb-blocklist script features
and the mt-blacklist features into the core script.

> I would not use a shared blocklist except for selecting initial 
> entries to populate my own local list(s). Having farm-wide and 
> wiki-specific blocklists is a big plus.

This will of course remain possible -- I'm just adding the possibility
of using shared blocklist as well.  (And the shared blocklists will
be able to come from servers other than pmwiki.org, should an
administrator wish.)

Pm