[pmwiki-users] Core Spam Blcok Thoughts

[Wendell Brown]

Neil Herber wrote:
> At 2006-04-05  02:47 PM -0500, Wendell Brown is rumored to have said:
>> Actually I meant turn on blocking by default but have it set to use 
>> the pmwiki specific list that is automatically downloaded not more 
>> than once a day (and yes, one of the possibly block list sites went 
>> off line and the script didn't handle it well - that has been 
>> corrected).  But Patrick has said that he is opposed to automatic 
>> updates to the block list, so this is probably a moot point.
>
> I hadn't realized that you were suggesting that the blocklist entries 
> be "hosted" at pmwiki.org (that is the implication here, is it not?), 
> but an interesting extension of MTBlocklist might be to have it 
> download the PmWiki Site.Blocklist page once a day. That way your wiki 
> would be at least as well protected as pmwiki.org.

I wouldn't presume to suggest that pmwiki.org would host the list (even 
though that was my hope).  And yes, MTBlackList could be easily modified 
to pull the existing list from pmwiki if it could get to the text 
version of the block file.