[pmwiki-users] Pmwiki native spamblock not functioning

Patrick R. Michaud pmichaud at pobox.com
Mon Feb 12 12:33:51 CST 2007


On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 12:58:38PM -0500, David Spitzley wrote:
> It appears to be working now; the difficulty seems to have 
> been that attempting to edit one of the pages wasn't sufficient 
> to trigger the pages to download; I had to wait until the next 
> day, at which point it appeared to kick in.

Ah.  It may also have been that the download failed for one
reason or another, and then the files didn't get updated for
another day or so.

If it happens again, just try removing the blocklist page(s)
in question and PmWiki will re-attempt the download.

Also note that some of the blocklists (e.g. chongqed) place
a limit on the number of downloads per day -- once that limit
is reached it's not possible to download the blocklist until
the next day.

Anyway, I'm very glad it's working now.

Pm


> >>> "Patrick R. Michaud" <pmichaud at pobox.com> 2/12/2007 10:49 AM >>>
> On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 04:40:29PM -0500, David Spitzley wrote:
> > I've just set up a new wiki at http://www.davidaspitzley.org/bootstrap, 
> > and I'm trying to get the built in spam blocking to work.  
> > Specifically, it is failing to download any blocklists, and is 
> > also fails to block anything when I copy Site.Blocklist from 
> > pmwiki.org.  Here's my applicable config.php text:
> > ...
> 
> Simply setting $EnableBlocklist = 10; should be sufficient to
> get the automatic blocklists to work -- setting the other
> blocklist variables shouldn't be needed.  
> 
> >  ## Download a shared blocklist from pmwiki.org every day
> >  $BlocklistDownload['Site.Blocklist-Shared'] = array('format' => 'pmwiki');	
> 
> Actually, the shared blocklist on pmwiki.org is Site.Blocklist-PmWiki .
> 
> > Any suggestions as to what's amiss?  
> > I've got action=diag enabled, if that will help.
> 
> I looked at the diagnostics but didn't see anything obviously wrong.
> I couldn't find any blocklists on the site (but that could be because
> they have read passwords on them).  You're correct that it didn't
> seem to be blocking posts.
> 
> Start with the simplest settings:
> 
>     $EnableBlocklist = 10;
>     $EnableWhyBlocked = 1;
> 
> and then add some block phrases to Site.Blocklist, and see if it
> blocks posts.  If that doesn't work, there must be something else
> going on and we can investigate it a little further...
> 
> Pm
> 



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