Re: Filter vulger / controversial words - need word source

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 a usefull aid to human moderation - flagging up > messages for review. > > if you want a partial list of offensive terms - try looking at the > meta keywords on a few porn sites ... This last paragraph is about the most useful comment on this whole subject :) 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 innocent email. It is particularly amusing when some 'security-conscious' person in one of these organisations subscribe to a list discussing for example the latest virus threats. However said 'security-conscious' person may find that they receive nothing of importance from the list because messages containing just *the name* of a known virus is enough for the misconfigured content-filtering software to step in and reject the message. -- Jason Wong -> Gremlins Associates -> www.gremlins.biz Open Source Software Systems Integrators * Web Design & Hosting * Internet & Intranet Applications Development * /* I finally went to the eye doctor. I got contacts. I only need them to read, so I got flip-ups. -- Steven Wright */