On 5/10/05 11:17 PM, Mark Talluto wrote:
Here is any interesting user request. We make a product that generates random letters for vision testing. We have been asked to make sure that the software does not accidentally create a vulgar word. I am sure I can come of with some of the basics, but I really need a list of vulgar words.
I must admit that it bothers me to know my program will have such language in its bowls. The request is valid and needs to be done. I have already created a small app that has made thousands of permutations of the range of letters available. I just need to quickly run my list against as complete a list of vulgar words as possible. Anyone of any ideas on the list?
Not a solution, but a true story that happened to me when I was working in the AOL HyperCard Forum (excerpted from an interview I gave a long time back):
No files may be released to public libraries on AOL if they contain any language considered to violate the Terms of Service. In order to help speed up file checks, I wrote a comprehensive HyperCard utility that stores a dictionary of bad words and then automatically scans for language violations in all the files I had to download.
It was incredible freedom. I no longer had to read every single word of every single script, resource, and text file. I could point this baby at a folder and go to bed. In the morning, fifteen megs of files were checked for language and logged; I had a full report of any violations in each file.
The other staff liked it too, and it became the forum utility tool for file checking. I gave it to the staff in the DTP forum and they liked it too, since it reads any file, not just stacks. Everyone was using this great tool, and I had saved staff a lot of work. So, I reasoned, probably staff all over AOL would like it. There's a staff area where we can post files for each other and I uploaded it there and waited for it to be released.
Some time later, I received a rejection notice, saying that AOL could not release my language-checking utility because it violated the Terms of Service. My file had bad words in it.
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