NOTICE FROM THE LIST HOST -- a vote in favor of limited moderation

From: Richard Erlacher <edick_at_idcomm.com>
Date: Wed Aug 22 15:03:34 2001

Such messages would undoubtedly slip through a simply coded filter, but the
source could easily be rerouted to the bit-bucket. If someone is bent on being
offensive, it's not hard to filter the source out in a more general way rather
than just picking out the offensive posts. I'm trying to figure out how to keep
from overburdening the list host, who's already got a full plate. It wouldn't
be a bad thing to reject and return messages with more than, say, 3
misspellings, either. Too bad there's not a decent grammar/syntax checker ...
anything that would cause people to THINK before hitting SEND would certainly be
welcome.

Dick

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeffrey S. Sharp" <jss_at_subatomix.com>
To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2001 1:21 PM
Subject: Re: NOTICE FROM THE LIST HOST -- a vote in favor of limited moderation


> On Wed, 22 Aug 2001, Richard Erlacher wrote:
> >
> > I'd suggest one alternative that would help with that ... use a list
> > of disqualifying terms, beginning with the various "deletable
> > expletives" that occasionally appear in peoples posts/rants once they
> > get fired up.
>
> That's a hard d4mn list for one sh1thead to make. It would take too
> fscking long, and some 455h0l3 b4574rd will always come along and think of
> some other p1550ff variation that breaks it. k-r4d 31337 h4X0r!!!!!
>
> I'm sorry if that was offensive, but I believe it sufficiently illustrated
> the point.
>
> --
> Jeffrey S. Sharp
> jss_at_subatomix.com
>
>
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