RE: [Nms-cgi-devel] Questions regarding email filter...

[Simon W. <es...@ou...>]

On Tue, 2003-02-11 at 20:46, Wizard wrote:
> Just so that I'm explaining myself fully, this is for DENY/ALLOW filtering
> for users to post to NMSBoard, i.e., to block users with specific emails
> from posting messages.

If I knew more about the existing wwwboard I could probably answer this
one but where do these addresses come from ?

I'm presuming they come from a user entering it via an html form in
which case it would be laughably easy to get around.

That being so, perhaps we are over-engineering the filtering ?

As far as I can see, the cases we need to deal with are:

A specific email address
Everyone at a specific domain
Everyone at a domain and its subdomains

The case you seem to be struggling with is

Everyone at a domain containing a word somewhere in the hierarchy

I just don't see that this would be a requirement for most people. If
they want to ban aol.de and aol.co.uk then let them put both in the
configuration. I actually think it would cause *less* confusion than odd
edge cases falling through the filter.

I believe that it is over-complicating things to try and develop a
filter for something that is semantically richer than you can see just
by looking at the domain name.

Simon.