[Dxspider-support] Badwords.

[Dirk Koopman]

Rene

What build are you on? The reason I ask is because I thought that I had
altered it so that only things *starting* in those patterns would be
picked up.

In general, it is the "regexes" that are causing these problems. They
live in the /spider/data/badw_regex file. You can add or subtract any of
the words in that file as you like. If you remove all the words in there
you will disable the "clever" filtering but retain the simple "badword"
one.

As you say, I was under a lot of pressure, mainly internal (ie UK) to
sort this problem out (as it was largely UK originated). I personally
don't want to change mine as the alleged  'main culprit' will find out
and start all over again.

What I *actually* need to do is to have a "HOLD" status on messages and
also an automatic mail to sysops every xxx hours saying message(s) so
and so are held.

My problem, just now, is that I don't have much time to do this. However
I will stick it on my list.

Dirk

On Sat, 2002-03-09 at 16:31, Rene Olsen 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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