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From: hoffman@pitt.UUCP
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Subject: Re: BBS Confiscated, a way to avoid it!
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Date: Tue, 5-Jun-84 00:27:52 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jun  5 00:27:52 1984
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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