[SC-Help] Re: Personal blacklist problem

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"Roy Lewallen" <w7el at eznec.com> wrote in message
news:d5r5pb$ka5$1 at news.spamcop.net...
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> Having learned of the FAQ, I discovered there that wild cards aren't
> recognized in the personal blacklist entries, which goes along with your
> recommendation. I'll be modifying my blacklist as you and the FAQ suggest.

I'd hit Jeff G. on the wildcard issue issue, he pointed me back to one
of his old posts, found at
http://forum.spamcop.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=3812&view=findpost&p=26132
Srill looking for some older data that may exist somewhere else,
but this is at least something ..???

> I've had considerable trouble using the web-based forums which don't
> like my firewall and browser settings. It's a nuisance to have to loosen
> the protections just for the occasional posting, and even then I
> sometimes have to try several times before a login is accepted. What's
> their attraction, anyway?

 I've only recently been given access to the actual code, so still
bringing myself up to speed.  It's primarily based on .php script
files, nothing unusual there ... plain old Port 80 traffic ... cookies,
both session and real are used, the real one can be dropped,
though you lose Tracking of Read/Unread items, and such (details
found via the Help button on the Forum) ... and yes, there is some
JavaScript, but most of that is long after you login .. when you
try some certain actions (such as the "My Assistant" thing .. it
generates a pop-up menu) ... I've got an iBook running wireless
into an old silver flying disk router that gets its access via a
Linksys wired router .. no problem ... a Win-98SE machine
wired through a D-Link router that is then wired though the
same Linksys router, also running the ancient @Guard firewall...
no problem (after setting permissions in the software firewall)
Give me something to work with to at least guess at
why you'd be having problems ....

Attraction?  I couldn't answer that .... The only thing I'll
point to is that for years, folks have been complaining about
the lack of a FAQ that actually had any data.  One fine day
a long time ago, I took it upon myself to take the existing
www.spamcop.net FAQ and build a different interface to it.
Then started adding to it.  Other folks helped directly, some
helped because their posts were then available to point to.
Bottom line, I did something about that which others bitched
about.   Sure there are better ways, better presentations,
but again ... the Forum FAQ exists ... why not use it ... or
better yet, contribute to it????

There was a huge cry for regular posting of a FAQ within the
newsgroups .. over and over and over .... Miss Betsy tried
this with her collaborative effort on the "Why am I Blocked?"
FAQ.  Document was a over a year old, many folks had been
involved with its development ... more corrections/additions
made after the first, second, and third newsgroup postings
from all the offered criticisms ... you'll note that it's been
a while since she's tried it again .... I'm probably wrong,
but I actually don't remember anyone patting her on the back
for her efforts ... just more corrections ...

The Forum FAQ is a monster, again, never intended to be
anything but a quick hack at the time, but it has grown.to
include something on the majority of the queries brought up
in the newsgroups.  Certainly, there is data there that
doesn't exist anywhere else without a lot of digging deep ...

When I go looking for help/data, I'll use any resource
available.  I use 7 other support forums (ISPs choice for
support of their hosting services, the support forum for
the SpamCop Forum software application,) participate
in / monitor over 30 newsgroups for software I use, the
Microsoft peer-to-peer support newsgroups, and I'm
not even going to try to guess at the others that I hit when
I need to look something up ... I'm just bedazzled by
some of the recent traffic over my doing something stupid
suggesting that you hit the web-forum for an answer to
your query ... Glad you found something of value ...
thanks for the feedback.