[Dxspider-support] Badwords.

Rene Olsen rene_olsen at post3.tele.dk
Sun Mar 10 16:28:15 GMT 2002


Hi Dirk.

> 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.

I am running 56.949. From the CVSlatest tgz file.

> 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.

Yes. I went into the regex file and took out the line with "co.ck" and did a 
"load/badwords". After that it was possible to send a mail containing co.ck.

> 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.

I aggree that it is no good to have things floating around with content of that kind. But 
as you say the clever checking seems to be the problem, as it will catch some 
combinations of words that are not bad.

But also the badword file itself, contains some words that maybe should not be on there. 
I remember a DX bulletin telling about the death of a ham, did not get through because 
the word "death" was on the badword list.

> 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.

That sounds like a good solution. At least then the message won't just disappear. But it 
might slow down the spreading og the message considerably, as some systems are 
located remotely, and the sysop may not look at it every single day. But it is better than 
the message just being trashed.

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

Sounds good. Hope that you will soon be able to join us on the IRC channel again.

Vy 73 de Rene / OZ1LQH






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