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Bot Public List for WordPress Block Analytics Spam
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Wildcard block #6

Open r91087 opened 8 years ago

r91087 commented 8 years ago

Is it possible to add wild cards to the bot block list? There are some domains such as .xyz which should be blocked. There are also spammers using subdomains of previously blocked domains which aren't getting blocked right now.

miguelsmuller commented 8 years ago

the idea is interesting and I get with great enthusiasm. I will think of the positives and negatives of the proposal. you believe there is no chance of conflicts?

r91087 commented 8 years ago

I think with any wildcards in computing there is always a chance on conflicts, however, they do lend themselves nicely to this instance. I think whoever is curating the list needs to be conservative in approving additions, but I forsee great usefulness with spam top-level domains like .xyz. I have also seen several pop up from forum####.ghostvisitor.com and forum####.ilovevitaly.com, as well as the law-enforcement-bot-##.com For those cases wildcards would be helpful.

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miguelsmuller commented 8 years ago

I'll see how this feature work in the plugin I maintain. I'm kind of busy with extra services but I believe we can put this feature into practice. we moving in that direction.