Graeme Fowler escribió:
> On Sat, 2009-05-30 at 10:21 +0100, Mike Cardwell wrote:
>   
>> Have you considered replacing swear words with ****'s instead of 
>> rejecting messages that contain them?
>>     
>
> Beware, beware, beware the "Scunthorpe problem" [0]
>
> 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
>
> [0] if you fancy a chuckle, look up the Wikipedia entry for it...
>
>
>   


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Ultreia Comunicaciones S.L.



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