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We maintain a local blacklist at '''[[My spam blacklist]]'''.  This is protected page that [[:Category:Active administrators of this wiki|Sysops]] can use to block offending link spam not caught by Level 1 and Level 2.  There should be very few entries here, and NONE that contain the following:
We maintain a local blacklist at '''[[My spam blacklist]]'''.  This is protected page that [[:Category:Active administrators of this wiki|Sysops]] can use to block offending link spam not caught by Level 1 and Level 2.  There should be very few entries here, and NONE that contain the following:
*Periods (full stop) '.' — periods, aka the 'full stop' have a special meaning in the regex syntax, and can cause the list to malfunction;
*Periods (full stop) '.' — periods, aka the 'full stop' have a special meaning in the regex syntax, and can cause the list to malfunction;
*TLDs (top level domains) 'com, org, net' — these appear in virtually all [[:Category:United States of America|United States]] URLs, and are also extensively used in many (though not all) [[:Category:Countries|countries]] around the [[:Category:Earth|world]], so provide no value to the blocking mechanism;
*TLDs (top level domains) 'com, org, net' — these appear in virtually all [[:Category:United States of America|United States]] URLs, and are also extensively used in many (though not all) [[:Category:Country|countries]] around the [[:Category:Earth|world]], so provide no value to the blocking mechanism;
*'http://www.' — the regex only checks valid URLs, so this is not necessary.
*'http://www.' — the regex only checks valid URLs, so this is not necessary.