[pmwiki-users] Site.Blocklist

Patrick R. Michaud pmichaud at pobox.com
Thu Mar 22 17:15:59 CDT 2007


On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 12:04:13AM +0200, [] Jamie wrote:
>    After reading one user's issues with spam I thought I'd investigate the
>    blocklist function. Clearly there is something I'm missing here. Despite
>    reading the explanation on this facility I'm uncertain of a couple of
>    things:
> 
>    1. Can I just copy and paste the contents of Site.Blocklist on PMWiki as I
>    see it? 

Yes.  It's also possible to configure a site to automatically download that
page once per day and use it.

>    The page on blocklists tells me there are two formats (using /\)
>    yet the page Site.Blocklist is just a list of blocked words. No sign of
>    any forward or backward slashes.

One format is a simple word format -- that's what you tend to see
on pmwiki.org.  The other format is a regular expression format, which
is denoted by using slashes.  Regular expressions allow patterns, checking
for word boundaries, etc.

>    2. If I do have to add slashes, where do I put them? The example 'block:
>    /\.uni\.ch/' is a bad one because there's a .ch involved here, just to
>    complicate simple brains like mine! How would you, for example, block the
>    word viagra - do you just enter 'block:viagra'. 

Yes, entering "block:viagra" will work, in that it will block
any post containing the string "viagra".  But be careful, because
something like "block:cialis" will end up blocking normal words
like "specialist".

>    If so, why can I still enter this word in a page entry?
>    I've created my own Site.Blocklist page and added a list of blocked words.
>    I have added to my config file the lines:
> 
>    $EnableBlocklist = 1;
>    $EnableWhyBlocked = 1;
> 
>    Is there something I'm missing?

I don't see anything you're missing.  Is there a url we could
look at?

What version of PmWiki are you running?

Pm



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