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On 15 January 2006 21:33, Ryan Viljoen wrote: |
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> > > What I landed up doing is defining a set of my own rules that detected |
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> > > if penis, viagra, slut and such words occured it added a +10.0 to the |
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> > > spam assassin rating so if is clearly identified as spam. |
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> > I'm somewhat cautious about this. I know you get very high hit rates |
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> > with this, but it doesn't make any allowances for false positives - |
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> > if I make a list of "banned words" like this, one of them is _sure_ |
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> > to turn up one day. |
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> Yeah I have this enabled in a school environment and the majority of |
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> the words I have in the list either way are not suitable for a school |
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> environment. |
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I am just curious here. "Penis" isn't a word suitable in a school environment? |
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They don't teach biology? How about "breast" or "breast feeding"? They |
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shouldn't be mentioned in schools? Just in case you black listed "tit" as |
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well, how about "tit for tat"? It isn't just an expression, it's also a |
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coined name for a certain strategy in game theory. |
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Explicitely black listing certain words takes them out of context and can |
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backfire badly. |
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Uwe |
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Unix is sexy: |
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who | grep -i blonde | date |
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cd ~; unzip; touch; strip; finger |
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mount; gasp; yes; uptime; umount |
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sleep |
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