[Dxspider-support] Badwords.

[Rene Olsen]

Hi.

It hapenned again. Yet another normal bulletin got caught in the badword proccessing in 
spider.

This time it was part 2 of the 425 DX News from this week.

The offending word seems to be part of a working e-mail address:

(sales at computers.co.ck)

There is nothing wrong with this address, except it has "co.ck" in it.

Now part 2 of the 425 dx news will got get to the rest of the clusters in OZ because of 
this.

I can make some local changes, even disable the badword checking completely, but 
that will only let the message get to my node. As soon as I try to forward it to another 
spider, the problem is the same. I could of course contact all the spider sysops in OZ, 
and ask them to change/remove the badword settings, but I don't think that is the 
correct way to go.

I know that Dirk was put under a lot of pressure after September 11th, because a lot of 
bad things were written in the time following the events of that day.

But, is it not possible to have a switch to enable or disable this thing, or even ship 
spider with an empty badword file. Since I started using spider, I have had many 
bulletins being lost due to the badword filters, and not one single of them has had a 
content that should justify this.

Could you please share your thoughts on this ?

Vy 73 de Rene / OZ1LQH