On Thu, 2 Apr 1998, Nigel Cass wrote:
> He has now decided that he wants to start scoring messages against a
> bad-word list and take a copy of the ones that come out over a given
> level of obscenity - basically for monitoring purposes.
(1) All the stories I hear about this sort of thing make one ROTFL. For
example, an astronomical site getting banned because of frequent
appearances of the phrase "naked eye"; a web site about breast cancer
getting blocked off; similarly for a cooking site ("breast of chicken")
and a swimming site ("breast stroke" - really naughty, that one);
somebody being refused an account because their address was in
Scunthorpe (that one's probably a myth). Basically, I don't think you
can trust any scoring that just picks out individual words.
(2) Students will be students. We spend enough time making sure they
aren't abusing the networks. We don't care much what they merely *say*.
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