Graeme Fowler escribió: > On Sat, 2009-05-30 at 10:21 +0100, Mike Cardwell wrote:
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>> Have you considered replacing swear words with ****'s instead of
>> rejecting messages that contain them?
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> Beware, beware, beware the "Scunthorpe problem" [0]
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> Profanity filtering is a terribly complicated thing to get right, and
> generic word filtering is even worse when you consider English county
> names, the fact that you can buy chicken breasts, and that to "parse"
> this message you find a "bad word" in the very act!
> Besides that, doing that kind of filtering may be illegal in some
countries (in Spain, i.e.)
Regards
> Anyone with active sweary filters probably won't get this :)
>
> Graeme
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> [0] if you fancy a chuckle, look up the Wikipedia entry for it...
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