Re: RE: [PHP] dirty words

What I find interesting is that you managed to use 4 variations on the word viagra, and your email still made it past my ISP's spam filters :) Keith > > From: "Graham Cossey" <graham@cossey.plus.com> > Date: 2004/10/18 Mon PM 06:27:02 EDT > To: <php-general@lists.php.net> > Subject: RE: [PHP] dirty words > > Skippy does have a point. > > If you still receive spam emails you'll know what he means. I must have seen > 20 different ways of spelling viagra, using various accented characters etc: > viagra, viagra, viiagra etc etc > > As for the legit words, there is the tale of Scunthorpe town council having > ALL its email blocked by filtering. (Scunthorpe is a UK town BTW). > > But then again I could be talking total b0llocks, cr@p and shit. (Sorry for > any offense caused, but you see the problem) > > Graham > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Skippy [mailto:skippy@zuavra.net] > > Sent: 18 October 2004 18:13 > > To: php-general@lists.php.net > > Subject: Re: [PHP] dirty words > > > > > > On Sat, 16 Oct 2004 07:41:11 -0700 (PDT) Mag <genphp@yahoo.com> wrote: > > > I am useing file_get_contents on a remote page then > > > using stristr() to make sure there are no "bad words" > > > and its a family site. > > > > May I point out this is a lost battle from the start? If someone really > > wants to enter "bad words" they will, by masking them in various ways; > > humans will interpret the bad words correctly in far more cases than you > > can filter with software. Additionally, you will end up filtering parts of > > legit words that look like bad words. > > > > -- > > Skippy - Romanian Web Developers - http://ROWD.ORG > > > > -- > > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >