Another fine thing about this is the fact that you can use unicode characters as an alternative which the regular expression engine probably wont match, unless it's somehow tweaked. This is the same theory as in when you are doing phising, for say ebay.com and replace the a with one of them non-ASCII letters, providing a link so that you won't have to type it. Only the other way around. It is a problem we have with information - it's hard to analyze the human communication essence (not the right word - duh I'm not a native) On 3/13/06, Finner, Doug <Dfinner@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > No, I agree, for this matter you can never create a regular expression > well written enough to match all or even most of the lingo we use. > ========================================= > Been off the list for a couple of days and just stumbled across this > thread. > > Our company uses some kind of 'nicey-nice gotta have a non-threatening > work environment' filter and I've had a couple of emails (somebody had a > post with the 'S' word written out in it's ugly full self, shame - > shame...) rejected because of the inclusion of 'FORBIDDEN WORDS'(tm). > Interestingly, this thread full of F|_|CKs and D1CKH3EDs made it through > totally unscathed. Spam containing ads for all known s3xual enhancement > products are delivered to my doorstop every day. > > Kinda makes the point that you'll never trap even a fraction of the > offensive content given the immense creativity of the human mind. > > Doug > > _______________________________________________________________________ > This e-mail message has been sent by Kollsman, Inc. and is for the use > of the intended recipients only. The message may contain privileged > or confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient > you are hereby notified that any use, distribution or copying of > this communication is strictly prohibited, and you are requested to > delete the e-mail and any attachments and notify the sender immediately. > > -- > PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
