Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site rocksvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!vaxine!wjh12!genrad!grkermit!masscomp!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!houxm!houxz!vax135!floyd!cmcl2!seismo!rochester!rocksvax!dave From: dave@rocksvax.UUCP Newsgroups: net.micro Subject: Re: BBS Confiscated, a way to avoid it! Message-ID: <503@rocksvax.UUCP> Date: Thu, 7-Jun-84 21:22:18 EDT Article-I.D.: rocksvax.503 Posted: Thu Jun 7 21:22:18 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 13-Jun-84 05:04:11 EDT References: <283@intelca.UUCP> <589@pitt.UUCP> Organization: Xerox Lines: 21 I remember our college computer club mail system had a "naughty" word list detector that would do bad things to the people that used them. One bad side effect was that the system adminstrators saw the listing of "naughty" words spill off a printer one day while the code was being worked on. This was a case of trying to protect your system from containing "naughty" words but because someone was looking at the "wrong" time you get blamed. The file normally was encrypted, but it had to be compiled into the program eventually and the compiler did not understand encrypted gobbledygook so you have to have the thing readable at some time. Of course this leaves out the most important aspect, who's to say what is offensive/wrong. What is wrong to others maybe perfectly acceptable to someone else.... -- Dave Arpa: Sewhuk.HENR@Xerox.ARPA uucp: {allegra,rochester,amd70,sunybcs}!rocksvax!dave