<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV><DIV>On Sep 29, 2006, at 10:21 AM, Pico wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Comic Sans MS">(4) Blocklist: This is *the most important step*.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>If you fix a spammed page,</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Comic Sans MS">particularly where PmWiki content was totally overwritten by spam, then you can,</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Comic Sans MS">and *should* add the spammer's IP address to the block list at Site.Blocklist. <SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Comic Sans MS">The password is "quick"<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>Follow the pattern of other entries and enter the first</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Comic Sans MS">three sets of ip numbers, with an asterisk for the 4th set, and no leading</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Comic Sans MS">zeros, and place it at the appropriate (sorted) location.</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><DIV>This spammer keeps changing IP addresses. But loves certain name-brand watches.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>If you add said name-brand to the blocklist as in:</DIV><DIV>block:brandname</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>It will stop people from using that name brand on the website. Since we're unlikely to be talking about spammy watches on PmWiki.org, this is fine.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Another possibility is to take the recurring part of the links they're trying to post -- usually the domainname.com portion.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>block:spamdomain.com</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>note that this is only necessary for spammy people savvy enough to put up listings that fall under the # of links that are blocked on PmWiki.org. PmWiki.org probably blocks a post if there's more than 5 unapproved links in the post.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>To approve a page's links, make sure they're real links, click on "approve links" and use the same password mentioned by Pico. This approves ALL links on the page, so check those unapproved links before clicking!</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Crisses</DIV></BODY></HTML>