ag it, and you'll have my
undying respect.
- Theo
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From: Jon Haworth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 9:14 AM
To: 'Christopher Raymond'; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [PHP] Filter vulger / controversial words - n
there simply is no definitive list of words
I agree. In Amateur Radio we faced this problem in the UK in the mid-90s
on the ax25/tcpip network when the Home Office made the sysops
responsible for content. Filtering messages off for human reading if any
words on the "list" occured was the on
Jason,
> > there simply is no definitive list of words
> The fact is content filtering does not work without a heavy dose of human
> intervention.
> It is quite shocking that large numbers of well known corporations deploy
> misconfigured content-filtering software which rejects perfectly innocen
> > > if you want a partial list of offensive terms - try looking
> > > at the meta keywords on a few porn sites ...
> >
> > Excellent idea!
> > Unfortunately I'd have to explain that to my boss... "No,
> > really, I'm doing some research..."
>
> but won't your gateway/web server's filter prevent
> > if you want a partial list of offensive terms - try looking
> > at the meta keywords on a few porn sites ...
>
> Excellent idea!
> Unfortunately I'd have to explain that to my boss... "No, really, I'm
doing
> some research..."
=guess monopolising the color printer for a whole afternoon would
On Wednesday 11 December 2002 23:12, Sean Burlington wrote:
>
> there simply is no definitive list of words
>
> you can't stop people talking about pussy cats, turkey breasts or even
> shag pile carpets (and words have different meanings from one place to
> the next)
>
>
> automated filters can be
Hi Sean,
> if you want a partial list of offensive terms - try looking
> at the meta keywords on a few porn sites ...
Excellent idea!
Unfortunately I'd have to explain that to my boss... "No, really, I'm doing
some research..."
Cheers
Jon
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DL Neil wrote:
Hi Jon,
[SNIP]
May I suggest, rather than picking your way through this minefield, you
provide a "report abusive comment" link instead?
Most sensible! The employment of a technological solution to a social
problem is somewhat shooting the messenger. However some countries are n
Hi,
> I think we've seen this discussion on the list before
> (so Christopher, check the archives!)
Quite :-)
> > The problems that others have experienced in the past are:
> > - what happens with "mis"spellings, e.g. "fsck"?
> > - what happens with dodgy formatting, e.g "f s c k"?
> > - what ha
Hi Jon,
I think we've seen this discussion on the list before
(so Christopher, check the archives!)
> > I'm wondering if someone has a great source for a master-list
> > of controversial and vulger words that I can use on my site.
> > I would like to pattern match input text against this master-l
> Following up to my own post
And again...
> I wonder if it was "Shorpe" I suppose I'll
> find out when/if I get another bounce :-)
I got another bounce :-)
Whoever is running this filter obviously doesn't want to do business with
any of the 70,000 odd people who live in a particul
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Hi Christopher,
> I'm wondering if someone has a great source for a master-list
> of controversial and vulger words that I can use on my site.
> I would like to pattern match input text against this master-list
> in order to prevent vulger and controversial words from appearing
> on my site.
Greetings:
I'm wondering if someone has a great source for a master-list of
controversial and vulger words that I can use on my site. I would like
to pattern match input text against this master-list in order to prevent
vulger and controversial words from appearing on my site.
Thanks for any
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