Adding a Blacklist to existing sensor code

Hey, I'm wanting to edit a piece of code I received from a player on my server, but I'm not sure where to start.
The existing code is for the sensor from OpenPeripherals and opens the door when a specified player goes near it. What I want to do, is modify the code so it emits redstone for any player when they go near it, but the names specified.

local sensor = peripheral.wrap('top') -- where the sensor is
local output = 'left' -- Where to output the signal
local initial = true -- What to output when no one's around
-- How close you need to be to the sensor in order to use it.
local minX = -2 local maxX = 2
local minY = 0  local maxY = 2
local minZ = -2 local maxZ = 2
-- Initial output
redstone.setOutput(output, initial)
while true do
players = sensor.getPlayerNames()
-- Don't do checks if there are no players.
if #players == 0 then
  redstone.setOutput(output, initial)
  sleep(0.7)
else -- There are players
  for _, name in pairs(players) do
   if name == 'player1' or name == 'player2' or name == 'player3' then
	info = sensor.getPlayerData(name)
	pos = info.position
  
	if pos.x >= minX and pos.x <= maxX
	and pos.y >= minY and pos.y <= maxY
	and pos.z >= minZ and pos.z <= maxZ then
	 redstone.setOutput(output, not initial)
	 break
	end
   end
  end
  -- There are players around, we need to be more responsive
  sleep(0.5)
end
end

A friend of mine, who doesn't know much lua but writes mods in Java added this to see if it would work:

						if name == 'player1' or name == 'player2' or name == 'player3' then
								end
						else
								info = sensor.getPlayerData(name)

I couldn't get that to work so now I'm pretty much lost as to where to go with this. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks, Bio

Should be simple enough. You just gotta use a variable to determine wether to set the signal or not, and potentially break the loop if a blacklisted player is found

local tBlacklist = { --blacklist table
  CometWolf,
  SomeOtherPersonWeDon'tLike,
  AndSoForth
}
while true do
  local enable = true --wether to enable the redstone or not
  local tPlayers = sensor.getPlayerNames()
  for _k,pName in pairs(tPlayers) do
    for _k,bName in pairs(tBlacklist) do
	  if pName == bName then --a blacklisted player was detected
	    enable = false --signal disabled
	    break --break the loop
	  end
    end
    if not enable then
	  break --need to break this one as well
    end
  end
  rs.setOutput(side,enable)
  sleep(0.5)
end