1) So, when MT offers that "quick de-spam using blacklist" option, should I decline, or should I just be looking at the window it produces, to make sure there aren't any common words and phrases in it?
2) Someone has blacklisted the phrase "beaut," which makes it difficult for Jeff of Beautiful Atrocities to comment on my blog. Can someone help?
Posted by Attila at February 28, 2006 06:25 PM | TrackBackLMA, it's fine to use the quick despam process, but if you're not familiar with the requirements for proper Blacklist entries, just stop after the despamming's been done and don't continue with the adding to Blacklist part. (It's more than just not blacklisting commom words.)
I'm going to write up a full set of Blacklist instructions in the next couple of days, which, if people will read, should help cut way down on blacklisting woes.
Paul
Posted by Light & Dark at February 28, 2006 06:44 PMOh, yea, and I think your problem with "beaut" was the same as Flibertigibbet's problem with "benefits".
Someone had Blacklisted the text string "be".
The correction for her problem should have solved yours as well - if not, let me know here and I'll look further into the list.
paul
Posted by Light & Dark at February 28, 2006 07:10 PMI'd love to automatically screen for this sort of thing, but my original patch didn't work, and it's really hard to do something through SQL because the entire list is stored as one huge binary string.
Posted by Pixy Misa at March 1, 2006 04:30 AMI think education is the only solution here Pixy. That and maybe some "distributed tech support", but let's try the education part first.
Paul
Posted by Light & Dark at March 1, 2006 08:32 AM