A Weblog of Centrist Voices in American Politics
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October 15, 2006New Spam BlacklistThe troublesome high CPU consumption may come from our having accumulated over the years a big blacklist, 1,982 entries. I've made an effort to consolidate down to more like 250 entries by finding common substrings within the long list. So, I've tried installing the new list. Hopefully, it should still catch 90+% of the spam, but it'll take some tuning to get the rest, since I'm only human and have probably missed some things, and been too lenient in some spots. In exchange for a good hope of serious CPU time reduction, we're likely to see more spam get through as we put in those things I missed. Hopefully that should go down as we adjust the list. The new blacklist is also effectively rather noticeably stricter about what it allows. Discussion about sex and gambling, for example, will be harder without some getting around the blacklist. You can see the blacklist's new contents here. Let me know if you have trouble or comments. Posted by Jon Kay at October 15, 2006 02:40 AMComments
Thanks for doing this. It's interesting to look at the list Why is the word c-ll-ge a no-no, forcing us to use the inflated term of university?
Who would have imaged "s*x, drugs and rock and roll" would someday come to mean "s*x, PRESCRIPTION DRUGS and rock and roll" PS: It won't even let me put in s*x Posted by: c3 at October 15, 2006 12:08 PMI'm gonna say it again... switching to WordPress would alleviate ALL these problems! I have absolutely NO problems on my blog using any words AND I have absolutely NO spam problems! I am officially volunteering to help convert Centerfield from MT to WP with no change to the existing template. Posted by: Heather at October 15, 2006 03:12 PMJon, the blanket blacklisting of the word "s_x" is a real pain, especially with the Foley scandal going on. Is there any way to tinker with it, so that only URLs with those 3 letters are blocked? I just did a lengthy comment in Oberon's post on Franks and Foley, and I had to go back through and replace the "e" with an asterik every time I used the word "homos*xuality". That's a real pain in the rear. Posted by: PatHMV at October 16, 2006 01:03 AMWhile you're at it, can you white-list the word "mag*zine"? It seems that "mag*z" is a bad word. Posted by: PatHMV at October 16, 2006 01:23 AMHow hard would it be to implement a captcha on Centerfield? Even something as simple as the same word each time seems to produce amazing results. Posted by: Scotch Drinker at October 16, 2006 12:25 PM |
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