[pmwiki-users] blocklist - the order does matter

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 11:58:52PM -0500, JB wrote:
> > The order really doesn't matter -- all of the blocklist
> > pages ultimately get used, and the unblock: entries are processed 
> > after all of the blocklist pages have been loaded.
> 
> This seems to be fundamentally wrong in the fact that 
> once something is unblocked it cannot be blocked.

Not true.

> For instance, suppose Site.Blocklist-MoinMaster blocks 
> something and the Site.Blocklist-Farm unblocks it, then
> then local wiki Site.Blocklist cannot block (or re-block) 
> it.  

This is actually trivial to do -- give me an example of
something that MoinMaster blocks and I'll illustrate how
to unblock it and then reblock it.

> I would suggest processing the these 5 "default" 
> block/unblock lists in this order: [...]

I don't want to have to worry about sequencing of
blocklists -- it's far far easier to say that 
"all blocks apply unless unblocked".

Pm