Actually now that the original system is in place it takes very little work
on a daily or even weekly basis. The only area that involves more effort
than I like is when I blacklist someone (by clicking a link in an email), I
still have to add any words to my list manually. I'm going to change that
so that when I blacklist someone the page offers me a way to also add in a
word or words at that time.
How much extra work is involved? Not much...
Premises
1) Person is already whitelisted (nothing to do on my end)
2) Post comes from form from someone new.
Post does not show up on the page until I see it.
I get an email with their comment and 2 links.
With those two links I can either
Whitelist them, in which case,their post shows up
and future posts on their part go to item 1 above and no further action is
necessary
Blacklist them in which case, their information goes
to a db blacklist and the post is removed.
3) Post doesn't come from my form.
Person is immediately blacklisted and nothing shows up.
4) Person is blacklisted, nothing shows up.
The only place I have to be involved is in Premise 2 and its merely looking
at the comment and clicking a link. Once I change the system to accommodate
on the fly additions to the bad word list, it should be even easier.
Yes its not set it and forget it, but I don't want to not know who is
posting to my blog. In fact I have every post that is whitelisted come to
me as well as part of a subscription. It doesn't take that much work or
time and it has been very successful in terms of stopping the spam and not
being apparent to anyone out there.
Ok, there was one glitch a few weeks ago. The email addresses I have stuff
going to (including the blacklist/whitelist) were inadverdently deleted and
stuff got into the system since I was posting first and removing on a
blacklist. Once I figured out why and cleaned out the db and changed to not
showing a new posters stuff until I whitelist them, its been a pleasure to
work with.
I think we as developers are the ones that need to handle the complexity.
Our users should not have to think when using our sites, that's our job.
Sandra Clark
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http://www.shayna.com
Training in Cascading Style Sheets and Accessibility
-----Original Message-----
I'll admit, Sandra's methods take some extra work on the part of the admin
but at a global level (meaning that all the info be accessible by all
applications within the server/cluster) I'd say it's worth maintaining.
...:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.
Bobby Hartsfield
http://acoderslife.com
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