Transmission

AFAIK, blocklists need to be in text form when adding manually. GUI clients that support auto updates via a URL can handle compressed files.
Somebody needs to clarify this in the wiki and Help files as many users are confused by the current wording.

Yes. This a million times. I have a .txt file ...

Hmmm, I did not build it myself, but rather just apt-get'd it.

Where did you find that snippet of Wiki? All I was able to find was something telling me to extract it and where, and not even what files are supported so I used a .txt and a .dat. Is there a Wiki page that tells me the tools it should ...

Thanks, I found the page that explains it better, I unzip it and put it into the blocklists folder. I assume there isn't a way to tell if it's working though, is there? Like a log kept?

Ah, thanks. Anyway to test it to make sure I did it right? I'm using a link to a .gz file, does that work?

Kind of self-explanatory, I hope. I'm not too familiar with transmission-daemon, but I'm wondering how much of the settings/preferences from the GUI Transmission are used in the daemon. In particular, will the IP Block list that I have set up in Transmission work in the daemon?