bad word checker

[Mark Talluto]

On May 10, 2005, at 9:52 PM, Dar Scott wrote:

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> On May 10, 2005, at 10:17 PM, Mark Talluto wrote:
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>> Anyone of any ideas on the list?
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> For a product-key task, recently, I omitted vowels from the set of  
> allowed characters to avoid bad words.  The set also had digits.   
> In that approach you still might have things show up that look bad,  
> but in my tests that didn't seem to be happening.
>
> Another approach would be to omit all words, bad or not, by using  
> some sort of spell checker library includes bad words.
>
> I'm with you about maintaining the bad word list.  I once managed a  
> discussion email list and had to set up my bad word filters.   
> Blach!  It's worse than searching through the spam bucket for  
> missed mail.  Since I'm naive, there are probably lots of words I  
> don't know and I'm upset about the ones I do know.


Thanks Dar,

Removing vowels is a good solution, but will not work as there are  
required vowels on the letters to be generated.  I do have to make  
sure the software does not generate "good" words as well as the  
"bad".  Turns out that a spell checker list that was created for MC  
some years ago by some good soul has what I am looking for.  With the  
good and the bad mixed together, I will never have to focus on them.

Thanks for your thoughts.

-Mark