[pmwiki-users] Effective use from Blocklist against SPAM

H. Fox haganfox at users.sourceforge.net
Sat May 13 09:43:31 CDT 2006


On 5/12/06, Laurent Meister <meister at apfelwiki.de> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> in the last month, spam attacks have doubled or tripled on our site.
> Primary target is our guestbook we realised with commentbox. We are
> using the newest version of blocklist (with action==edit and
> action==comment). We don't have implemented the hole blocklist.txt
> from the cookbook, because after that a great number of pages could
> not be edit anymore because of using words that contain parts of this
> blocklist.
>
> is there a possibility to block only the exact word?

The cmsb-blocklist.php script can do that.  You can do whole-string
matching by double-quoting a string, so

  block:"amorous"

will not match the word "clamorous".

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

Hagan




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