On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 09:56:44AM -0700, Chuq Von Rospach wrote:
>That's about it. When I implement this, I'm going to add one more
>filter, and that's a language filter, because there are a few words that
>I feel are never appropriate for my mailing lists (one rhymes with duck,
>another rhymes with tigger) -- but you need to be very careful here,
>because otherwise you can really upset people like my friend Igor
>Livshits....
It is IMHO impossible to filter effectively for this sort of thing. Say
you dislike the word "biro". Quite apart from the false positives, you
have to catch "b i r o", "b1r0", and a great many other variants. If
it's really that important, human moderation seems to be the only way
to go.
Roger
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