Inappropriate tone on this mailing list and requirement for governance

[David Fox]

On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 12:25 PM, Barry Smith <bnsmith001 at gmail.com> wrote:

> One point to think about -- if "ass" in in the badword list, should it
> also match A.s.S. or any substring created after punctuation is
> removed?  Moderation, and automated scanning, should include the full

A precedent exists that makes this filtering stuff undesirable. There
was a time when Prodigy was in vogue (anyone remember them) and one
person in particular got really upset because he couldn't tell people
on Prodigy that his family member graduated "magna cum laude" from a
university -- because the posting had the word "cum" in it. Sheesh.



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