Pixy, there are about a hundred entries in the blacklist with the .cn suffix. Since someone removed ".cn" and the system won't let me put it back in, is there some way you can do your punctuation magic and consolidate all those?
(P.S. About a week ago the default # of searched comments went back to 100 again--can you knock it back up to a grand or so?)
Here's an example (Eric added these):
a7-r-dfb.cn
a7-r-dfi.cn
a7-r-dfj.cn
a7-r-dfq.cn
a7-r-dfu.cn
a7-r-dfv.cn
a7-r-dfw.cn
a7-rd-fa.cn
a7-rd-fd.cn
a7-rd-fk.cn
a7-rd-fr.cn
a7-rd-ft.cn
a7-rdf-c.cn
a7-rdf-d.cn
a7-rdf-e.cn
a7-rdf-f.cn
a7-rdf-g.cn
a7-rdf-k.cn
a7-rdf-t.cn
a7-rdf-v.cn
a7-rdfb.cn
a7-rdfc.cn
a7-rdfd.cn
a7-rdfi.cn
a7-rdfk.cn
a7-rdfl.cn
a7-rdfn.cn
a7-rdfp.cn
a7-rdfq.cn
a7-rdfr.cn
a7-rdfx.cn
This is just junk cluttering up the blacklist.....
Posted by Susie at August 2, 2007 01:42 PM | TrackBackAs I understand it, a .cn would blacklist any word that has the letters cn together.
For instance - if someone wanted to comment about c-net.com ... they'd be toast (as my original comment is now toast because someone must have added the string. that's the problem we had with .ru and one other I can't think of at the moment as the dot represents any string. I wish to heaven the blacklist makers had gone with the * as the default "any string" as most everything else does in computers. *sigh* It would've saved us so much grief.
Posted by Teresa at August 2, 2007 07:17 PMTeresa.... the blacklist (as is all of MT) is written in Perl. That language specifies the function of the "." in regular expressions, so it wasn't just a quirky decision of Jay Allan's (the blacklist author) designed to drive ya bananas 
Paul
Posted by Light & Dark at August 3, 2007 05:27 AMAh so I can blame the writers of Perl... I knew there was a reason I never bothered to learn it. *grin*
Posted by Teresa at August 3, 2007 09:45 PMHarvey managed to ban .cn again, but I've removed that and banned \.cn, which is what you actually need if you want to ban .cn and not words like, err... acne. Huh. There's not a whole lot of words with cn in them, is there?
Posted by Pixy Misa at August 4, 2007 06:59 AM