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• At 03 November '05 - 15:48 Marcel wrote:

  Hi there,
  
  love the script..
  but i do have one question:
  
  There is the option to use the “Bot-Question”-Feature, but wouldn´t it be better to use a function, which generates a random mix out of ascii and numbers, and the user shoud type thise mix into a field?
  
  Like in some forums etc..
  
  Greetings
  
  Marcel

  
  

• At 05 November '05 - 06:02 Goya wrote:

  

  Small remark; both the links refer to the .tgz file. Copying the link location, and changing the tgz extension into .zip enables you to get the file.

  
  

• At 08 November '05 - 10:07 Edwin wrote:

  

  Hello i’ve installed blacklist and all works great , but when i press the “update now” button to get my (first?) list it gives the following error:
  
  “Failed to get the blacklist. Existing list was left untouched.”
  
  As far as i can see i don’t have a list yet.
  If you could help me out i would apreciate it :)
  
  Gr. Edwin

  
  

• At 18 November '05 - 07:56 Ty wrote:

  I’m running Pivot 1.24 and Blacklist 0.93, and today I’ve received several waves of comment spam containing phrases that the Blacklist editor should have stopped.
  On all of the comments, the words are connected by ‘+’ signs or ‘%2’. Even after I added the catchphrases and those additional characters to the Blacklist, the spam keeps coming through.
  
  any ideas?

  
  

• At 23 November '05 - 06:54 Paul wrote:

  

  Hello, i’ve installed the blacklist and all works great , but i cannot see the “update now” button to get my first blacklist.
  
  Could you help me out?
  
  Thanks.

  
  

• At 01 December '05 - 08:11 Robert wrote:

  

  For all confused people:
  
  Jay’s blacklist is no more. For that reason there is no dowload blacklist-button anymore in version 0.9.3. Which sucks.
  
  Can’t we pivotpeople maintain our own downloadable blacklist? At least make an import option in the next version, please. So people can chose to publish blacklists.

  
  

• At 16 December '05 - 08:32 Joran wrote:

  

  I’ve got the spamquiz enabled, but it doesnt seems to work. I’ve doublechecked everything but it still ignores what you fill in in the form
  somebody got an idea?

  
  

• At 20 January '06 - 07:09 GdeB wrote:

  

  Your darn right. Keep up the great work Marco.

  
  

• At 15 February '06 - 03:09 Muthu Veerappan periyakaruppan wrote:

  

  One of the best extensions that a pivot user will need. I have been using this for a long time. Thanks for your hard work.

  
  

• At 09 March '06 - 05:32 Eljo wrote:

  

  Spam problem with [ hardened ] trackback v0.9.3
  
  Oke I had the feeling that the hardened track back was uncrackable but I have trackback spam: http://www.morpurgo.nl/pivot/entry.php?i..
  
  Also posted on Pivot Forum
  http://forum.pivotlog.net/viewtopic.php?..

  
  

• At 27 March '06 - 06:46 Peter wrote:

  

  Well, I am sure I double-checked everything, but still my spamqiz won’t work. The source code says “” but my url-s are okay. If I run the spamquiz snippet it gives me an error, allthough I am sure I did not touch the code. It says:
  Warning: main(): Unable to access ../extensions/blacklist/blacklist_lib.php in /home/blutarsk/home/blutarsk/www/seelaavie/pivot_new/extensions/snippets/snippet_spamquiz.php on line 29..
  
  Could you give me a clue on how to fix that?

  
  

• At 27 March '06 - 07:01 Marco wrote:

  

  Yep.
  the dir:
  
  /home/blutarsk/home/blutarsk/www/seelaavie/pivot_new/extensions/blacklist/
  
  doesn’t exists on your server. My best guess is you installed a new instance of pivot (pivot_new) but forgot to install pivot blacklist for that new instance.

  
  

• At 27 March '06 - 07:06 Peter wrote:

  

  Oh, but it does! that is what I doublechecked..I even ran the testconfig and that tells me everythin is allright, but it isn’..

  
  

• At 27 March '06 - 07:56 Peter wrote:

  

  well, I now made it an absolute url, so: http://www.seelaavie.nl/pivot_new/extens..
  
  is blank page
  
  and
  
  http://www.seelaavie.nl/pivot_new/extens..
  
  says I can safely enable spamquiz
  
  but it still says: snippet spamquiz is undefined

  
  

• At 27 March '06 - 21:45 Marco wrote:

  

  Which Pivot version are you using? This has been happening on some versions and I’ve never found out why. It’s a pivot issue for sure but I can’t help you with that really.

  
  

• At 28 March '06 - 00:43 Peter wrote:

  

  You are right. I upgraded to the stable 124 Arcee and now it’s fine! Thanks for your time and offcourse for the blacklist tool!

  
  

• At 29 March '06 - 15:24 Dwight Shih wrote:

  Should the wiki be pointing to this page rather than http://www.pivotblacklist.net??

  
  

• At 14 April '06 - 00:23 Ivo Victoria wrote:

  

  Hi, Another question: i installed the spamquiz and everything went fine and the testconfig says i`ve done everything right. Still, there are several people visiting my log, that are unable to post comments even though they answer the spamquiz correctly. there doesn`t seem to be any reason why they`re being blocked since i keep an empty blacklist editor and do not use any of the other features. What can be the problem? Ivo Victoria, http://www.ivovictoria.com

  
  

• At 14 April '06 - 00:32 Marco wrote:

  

  I have no idea what these people are doing but it works fine for me. I just did some tests on your site. Either omitting the answer or posting a wrong answer kicks me to spammerbegone.com like it should.
  
  Maybe these people are dyslectic and can’t spell your last name? Did you try a much more trivial question such as “How much is 4 1” ?

  
  

• At 19 November '06 - 14:20 Timothy wrote:

  

  Your darn right. Keep up the great work Marco.

  
  

• At 01 December '06 - 06:10 ivo victoria wrote:

  

  marco, my spamquizz works perfect. but still, i get spam these last couple of days. just like you do apparently on this page… how is this possible and what can i do about it?

  
  

• At 01 December '06 - 07:46 Eljo wrote:

  

  Ivo, did you update to the last version of Pivot because this list is old and is now part of and maintained by Pivot permanently.

  
  

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