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From: dave@rocksvax.UUCP
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Subject: Re: BBS Confiscated, a way to avoid it!
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Date: Thu, 7-Jun-84 21:22:18 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jun  7 21:22:18 1984
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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

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