Should I Block Everything?

Client Joined: Sep 18, 2004 Posts: 62

I was just curious if other Sentinal users are utilizing all of the sentinal blocks or just a couple?

I've read the block descriptions quite a few times, but some seem like they might block some "false positives". I just don't want to disable my normal users from connecting to the site.

What are you blocking?

Posted: Sat Sep 25, 2004 3:01 pm

All!

A ban user is provided a way to contact me if they feel they where unjustly ban from the site.

Posted: Sat Sep 25, 2004 3:10 pm

Thanks..that reminds me, where is the default blocked page (what the blocked person sees?) I would like to make sure my contact info is showing properly.

Thanks again

Posted: Sat Sep 25, 2004 3:23 pm

It's in folder abuse the .tpl files

Edited

Posted: Sat Sep 25, 2004 7:08 pm

I started rooting around in that folder and found the files. It doesn't look like it will pull and display a way to get in touch with me. For example, I see the following:

Code:

<html>


<head>


<title>__SITENAME__: You have been blocked</title>


</head>


<body bgcolor="#000000" text="#ffffff" link="#ffffff">


<p align="center"><b><img src="abuse/logo.png" height="60" width="468"><br />You have been blocked from entering this site.</b></p>


<p align="center"><b>You have attempted to use a blocked Request Method on this site.</b></p>


<p align="center"><b>All of the following information has been gathered to assist the webmaster should this need to be report to local or federal officers.</b></p>


<p><b>User Agent:</b> __USERAGENT__<br />


<b>Remote Address:</b> __REMOTEADDR__<br />


<b>Client IP:</b> __CLIENTIP__<br />


<b>Forwarded For:</b> __FORWARDEDFOR__<br />


<b>Date Blocked:</b> __TIMEDATE__<br />


<b>Block expires:</b> __DATEEXPIRES__</p>


</body>


</html>

Should I add in a line like

<b>If you feel you have gotten this message in error you can email the administrator at admin_@_mysite.com</b>

Or would that be redundant?

Posted: Sat Sep 25, 2004 8:23 pm

If you do add it in the following format

You at yourdomain dot com no spam