Re: RES: [PHP] Bad words [SQL, database, txt, whatever]

On Wed, 2009-02-04 at 16:22 -0500, Robert Cummings wrote: > On Wed, 2009-02-04 at 13:14 -0800, Daevid Vincent wrote: > > > > Thankfully he IM'd me about it and I fixed it for him, but if he were a > > "real customer", I bet they would go away and never come back. I > > commented out the code and it's bit-rotting as we speak, as it's just > > too much h*BLEEP*le to try and deal with all possibilities. Instead, I get > > an email notification whenever someone joins up and if they're sketchy, > > then I just delete them manually. Customers are too valuable to > > ostracize because of a strstr() in their name... > > Fixed the above for you. > > >:) > > Cheers, > Rob. > -- > http://www.interjinn.com > Application and Templating Framework for PHP > > Even more recently than Hotmail, iTunes tried something similar to protect their 'sensitive' customers and censored out album names like 'Smells Like T**n Spirit' and 'I Though I Saw A P***y Cat'. Seems a little silly, but it goes to show that it's not a small problem, and even one of the big boys (should those last two words be censored?) can get it wrong! Ash www.ashleysheridan.co.uk