[Dxspider-support] Badwords.

[Fred Allstadt]

Perhaps the word "sales" was the offending word?

I know that many of the European laws are strict about conducting business 
over the Amateur bands, and it's really not much different here in the 
US.  Our FCC is fuzzy when it comes to what's legal, and what's not.  We 
can allow individual hams to offer an item for sale, but can not negotiate 
a price over the air.  It's legal to use a repeater phone patch to order a 
pizza, but I can't call my secretary (well, if I had one!) and give her 
business instructions (though I could call her, and tell her I'm tied up in 
traffic, and will be late).  It's all very muddy.

As a programming task, it's nearly impossible to ask software to determine 
these choices, what's legal, and what's not.  Dirk did a great job getting 
filtering in place, and quickly.  Perhaps the next iteration of the badword 
filter will put a message on hold (or perhaps just forward it to the 
sysop), when a word found in the list is bad.  The message can then be 
reviewed, and released if the sysop determines it meets the criteria that 
it's legal to send.

Just my $0.02 worth...
Fred  N1ZUK

At 05:31 PM 3/9/02 +0100, you wrote:
>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
>
>
>
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