"Ignore" option for HTTP blocks

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Some HTTP blocks you just want to block permanently, and not receive the
"blinking icon" notification when connections to those IPs are blocked.  It
might be nice to have an additional "Ignore IP" option for when you
right-click on a blocked IP address, which adds this to an "Ignore List";
entries on this Ignore List will not flash the systray icon when a block
occurs.

Suggestion submitted via email by "Nick K".

Original issue reported on code.google.com by peerbloc...@gmail.com on 28 Oct 2009 at 3:19

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I endorse this idea , and would like to enlarge its scope with three 
observations ,
though  :

1- the creation of another list (the mentioned Ignore List) is a perhaps 
unnecessary
increase in the PB overall logic : the solicited result could be achieved with 
the
existing Permanent Block List , if it could be created for each line one 
"No-Alert"
flag (to suppress icon-blinking) , which would be disabled by default.

This suggestion makes the result broader than the original proposal , as it 
permits
the inclusion of other IPs (non HTTP) in the No-Alert behavior (when the 
"Notify On"
option is set to "All-Blocks") .

2- if however my suggestion above would not be accepted , then please :

do not use the "Ignore IP" expression , as in all softwares it implies in 
dismissing
the object , in this case to *not* consider or disregard that HTTP IP for 
blocking ,
when in fact what is wanted is just to suppress the icon blinking (and possibly 
the
yellow color).
Consider so to replace the "Ignore IP" expression by "No-Alert" or similar .

3- an independent item for PB settings :
   the "Notify On" option should be renamed "Alert On" .

Original comment by JRF...@gmail.com on 30 Oct 2009 at 9:04

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Thanks for the additional discussion.  

1:  Sounds like it could be a reasonable implementation of this idea, will need 
to
think about it some more to make sure it's as least-confusing as possible 
though.  

2 & 3:  I agree, we need to be careful how we word things.  I do prefer the 
"Notify"
term versus "Alert", because it is more general in nature - and we can expand 
upon
this terminology to refer to additional notification types as well, in the 
future. 
When we're talking about this feature, instead of "Ignore IP" (which I like just
because of its brevity) maybe we could go with "Disable Notifications for this 
IP",
or "Disable Notify", or something.

Original comment by peerbloc...@gmail.com on 30 Oct 2009 at 1:52

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This suggestion was also made in a post on our forums:
http://forums.peerblock.com/read.php?5,6065

Original comment by peerbloc...@gmail.com on 5 Apr 2010 at 4:13