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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
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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
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