Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site pitt.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!vaxine!wjh12!genrad!decvax!mcnc!idis!pitt!hoffman From: hoffman@pitt.UUCP Newsgroups: net.micro Subject: Re: BBS Confiscated, a way to avoid it! Message-ID: <589@pitt.UUCP> Date: Tue, 5-Jun-84 00:27:52 EDT Article-I.D.: pitt.589 Posted: Tue Jun 5 00:27:52 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 7-Jun-84 00:42:39 EDT References: <283@intelca.UUCP> Organization: Univ. of Pittsburgh, C. S. Dept. Lines: 15 glen@intelca mentioned a system that he used in college that would scan terminal I/O for cuss words, and said that a BBS could do much the same thing. A recent issue of the Computer Shopper (Patch Publishing, Titusville, FL) had several articles about BBS misuse and some of the steps taken to clean up the systems. One fellow put a cuss word filter in the part of the system where the user types his name in. It worked well for the most part, but at one point he said something like: "...and my most sincere apologies to Mr. Jack Offenheimer who was unceremoniously thrown off of my system for no good reason". Cheers, -- Bob Hoffman Pitt Computer Science