We're Being Given Points for Swearing, Hurrah!

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They've installed software at work which checks the content of all outgoing and incoming emails for offensive content. This means that if you send an email with swearing in it, it gets bounced back with a message saying what the offensive word is, and a number denoting how bad it is! How cool is that?

― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 24 February 2003 10:32 (twenty-two years ago)

wank, for example, scores 5.

― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 24 February 2003 10:32 (twenty-two years ago)

So much better than our system. We just get a generic 'you have been naughty' message. My friend Killian has never had a mail delivered to me successfully on first sending.

― Lara (Lara), Monday, 24 February 2003 10:39 (twenty-two years ago)

thats wanktastically fucking disgraceful - fascist bully boys

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 24 February 2003 10:41 (twenty-two years ago)

of course all that happens is we BREAK OUT THE ASTERISKS ********************************************************************************************************************************************

― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 24 February 2003 10:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Surely the Alternate Sweary Dictionary comes into action?

Fucq
Shiyt
Wynk
Cokk

etcetera...

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Monday, 24 February 2003 10:46 (twenty-two years ago)

And invent new swear words! Or turn into Father Jack Hackett!

― Lara (Lara), Monday, 24 February 2003 10:47 (twenty-two years ago)

I am assured that the software only works on whole words not bits of words, so anyone mentioning Scunthorpe or the Wanky National Park in South Africa is safe.

― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 24 February 2003 10:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Bushman Rock Art in Wankie National Park : http://users.ev1.net/~corlexis/bushmanart/research.htm

― Lara (Lara), Monday, 24 February 2003 11:22 (twenty-two years ago)

(ha if you had a v. sensitive PC-filter though it would tell you to change Wankie to Hwange...)

― Sam (chirombo), Monday, 24 February 2003 11:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Spammeisters have gotten smart about this kind of crap. We run SpamAssasin at work which flags certain combos of words. But we still see a lot of horrible pr0n spam (I mean gross shit like beastiality and pedophilia) because they write words like "seks" and "rapp". And I'm pretty sure it isn't because their english is shite...I locked down my email proggy at work so it wont display any images or html, I hardly feel like seeing that shit first thing in the morning!

Its pretty funny when I mail someone and it gets bounced though, I never realise I swear so much *sheepish grin*.

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 24 February 2003 11:28 (twenty-two years ago)

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