At 05:04 PM 8/27/01 -0400, you wrote:
>You should check out the Soapinyourmouth xtra at Macromedia.
>It not only checks for bad words, it also provides a behavioral
>deterrant against future profanity violations. ;)
>
>Note that most profanity checkers are mild deterrants. Those who
>wish to get around it can, and normally do. They alter the spelling
>of the words, or they use 3L33T speak, or they use regular words that
>are just as offensive. It's a rough world out there. All you can do
>is arm yourself with a shoehorn and a bar of Buddy's soap.
Or they use f�nn� characters if they can. Or they use the wide array of
non-english words that are available. and once you get into spanish, you
have words that mean something very obscene in one country and mean "soda
straw" in another...
Just realize that any 'checking' you're doing does not guarentee anything
at all, just makes some of the obvious ones 'illegal'. And once you start
checking, some people can get the idea that your filtering should work very
well....
roymeo
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