Thanks everyone for your helpful thoughts.
Luckily most people use the "normal" bad words and are too lazy to check
it out. Moreover I have the mobile phone number of every user...
best regards, Florian
Roy Crisman wrote:
>
> At 05:04 PM 8/27/01 -0400, you wrote:
> >You should check out the Soapinyourmouth xtra at Macromedia.
> >It not only checks for bad words, it also provides a behavioral
> >deterrant against future profanity violations. ;)
> >
> >Note that most profanity checkers are mild deterrants. Those who
> >wish to get around it can, and normally do. They alter the spelling
> >of the words, or they use 3L33T speak, or they use regular words that
> >are just as offensive. It's a rough world out there. All you can do
> >is arm yourself with a shoehorn and a bar of Buddy's soap.
>
> Or they use f�nn� characters if they can. Or they use the wide array of
> non-english words that are available. and once you get into spanish, you
> have words that mean something very obscene in one country and mean "soda
> straw" in another...
>
> Just realize that any 'checking' you're doing does not guarentee anything
> at all, just makes some of the obvious ones 'illegal'. And once you start
> checking, some people can get the idea that your filtering should work very
> well....
>
> roymeo
>
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