Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site cyb-eng.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!mgnetp!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!hao!seismo!ut-sally!cyb-eng!topher From: topher@cyb-eng.UUCP (Topher Eliot) Newsgroups: net.jokes Subject: article from net.micro Message-ID: <403@cyb-eng.UUCP> Date: Thu, 7-Jun-84 10:09:13 EDT Article-I.D.: cyb-eng.403 Posted: Thu Jun 7 10:09:13 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 15-Jun-84 00:39:44 EDT Organization: Cyb Systems, Austin, Texas Lines: 22 This was posted in net.micro, and I felt it deserved repition here: > 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 Cheers, Topher Eliot Cyb Systems, Austin, TX {seismo, allegra, ihnp4}!ut-sally!cyb-eng!topher