Blacklist question

  • pontificator

    (@pontificator)


    20 years ago

    My webverger has updated my blog to WP 1.5. It’s terrific. And the spam-filter is catching all the spam that’s been thrown my way and putting it into the moderation bin.

    But I keep looking at the blacklist option, which would nuke the stuff and I’d never have to even delete it. But I gather this is a pretty dangerous tool. I guess my question is this: How is the best way to use this function? Is there a good “blacklist” that one can copy into it? Is there a good plug-in one might use? Or should I simply ignore it, and be content to use the moderation feature?

    TIA.

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  • Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    If the spammer’s URL is not a common word (for example, I’m being hit pretty hard from nutzu.com), then add his domain name to that blacklist. Because, the only person commenting with nutzu anywhere in his or her comment would be that spammer.

    philpeeps

    (@philpeeps)

    but since partial word matches are blacklisted, does that mean that nut will also be nuked or just nutzuriffic?

    off to try something and report back in a sec….

    philpeeps

    (@philpeeps)

    ok…it seems to only blacklist words that have the entire string in them, not partial words of the string….

    Thread Starter pontificator

    (@pontificator)

    So you think that if I were to add a domain name, say, e.g., sutra-sex.com or terminator-sales.com, that spam that includes the domain name in its entirety would get caught, rather than posts that contain “sex” or “terminator”?

    I’m looking now, for example, at the old WP blacklist.txt and wondering if these domain names should be added to the blacklist …

    Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    Phil, you’ve got the blacklist function reversed. If “nutzu” is blacklisted, then only “nutzu” and expansions on “nutzu” would be blacklisted. IOW, “nut” WOULD NOT trigger the blacklist, but “nutzueriffic” WOULD trigger the blacklist.

    Pontificator, if you were to blacklist “terminator-sales”, then it would only delete comments containing “terminator-sales”. It will not affect comments containing just “terminator” or “sales”. This functions exactly as wp-blacklist does.

    Thread Starter pontificator

    (@pontificator)

    Thanks, mac. One more question: Should I type in “terminator-sales” or “terminator-sales.com”? Any disadvantages one way or the other?

    Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    I would type in “terminator-sales”. The disadvantage to using “terminator-sales.com” is that if the spammer registers terminator-sales.net, you won’t catch it.

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