It would seem that someone has blacklisted the entire English language AGAIN. It would seem they have taken the extra precautionary step of blacklisting the entire alphabet as well since a test comment of just the letter "u" was blocked.
I don't think I have ever actually blacklisted anything precisely to prevent causing something like this. Does everyone understand that the blacklist is universal to all of Munuviana and not specific to their individual blogs? If you screw up, you screw us all.
Please use the blacklist with care and caution.
Posted by Stephen Macklin at February 19, 2006 04:51 PMStephen, it may be that you already cleaned out the offending entries in the Blacklist, but if not, I suspect this was a repeat of an old gem - Greg had blacklisted the period [.].
Folks, almost all of you that are putting entries in the Blacklist are doing so entirely incorrectly. As a result, your entries are NOT protecting other MuNu users, or even yourselves, AT ALL, and are, as Stephen explains, causing disastrous problems for all other MuNuvians.
If you have not specifically studied the correct format for Blacklist entries, DO NOT add things to the Blacklist. You are wasting your time, and causing ridiculous bloat to the Blacklist in the process (which takes more time and processing power for each comment.)
Paul
Posted by Light & Dark at February 19, 2006 07:01 PMPaul,
I am one of those who knows just enough about the blacklist to know he should stay well away from it!!
A big thanks and Yay! for getting it fixed.
Posted by Stephen Macklin at February 19, 2006 08:56 PMThanks Paul.
I patched Blacklist so that it wouldn't accept anything less than six characters long, but the patch doesn't seem to be working. 
