[wp-hackers] WP Blacklist Clean

[Mark Jaquith]

Of course. I wasn't proposing it as something that is done 
automatically, but something that could be done manually, sort of like 
Kitten's retrospaminator.  It should be seen as a maintainence utility 
only called at the user's request.  On my spam words list of over 3000 
words, it took about 8 seconds to run and prune 500 redundant entries.

Also, a point of clarification, as some were confused... This utility 
cleans your spam words list, and has nothing to do with WP-Blacklist.  I 
have renamed the script to reflect that.  Also, the script should now be 
run from /wp-admin/


>>  <mark.wordpress at txfx.net> wrote:
>>  >  I've often noticed that many blacklists contain redundant 
>> entries.  For
>>  > example:
>>  >  -casino
>>  >  casino-
>>  >  online-casino
>>  >  vegas-casino-online
>>  >  online-casino.com
>>  >  blackjack-casino.com
>>  >  casino-magic
>>  >
>>  >  All those entries could be taken care of by "-casino" and "casino-"
>>  >
>>  >  So I wrote a script that eliminates any redundant entries, as well 
>> as
>>  > eliminating exact duplicates and sorting the blacklist 
>> alphabetically.
>>  >
>>  >  http://txfx.net/files/wordpress_hacks/wp-blacklist-clean.phps
>>  >
>>  >  I'm no PHP expert, so I'm sure this is a horridly inefficient 
>> script... but
>>  > it seems to work for me (removed over 500 redundant entries on my
>>  > blacklist).  Could some of you more PHP-savvy hackers give it a 
>> look-see?
>>  >
>>  >  Because of its recursive nature, it takes quite a few seconds to 
>> run on big
>>  > blacklists, and shouldn't be automatic... but maybe this could be 
>> added as a
>>  > manual option, right below Kitten's retrospam link.  "Clean and sort
>>  > blacklist."
>>  >