Bouncing Obscenities from Community Boards
Problems I never thought would crop up in eMarketing: A Sherpa reader just emailed in asking for advice for his government-related site’s new community boards. He wanted to know if there are any pre-written lists of obscene words he can program in his boards with so they auto-bounce any messages with them. (Now there’s a biz to be in, can you imagine telling people, “I sell lists of obscene words”?) Anyway, I emailed back well if it’s a professional board it’s doubtful if you’ll get very many postings with obscenities. It’s usually not remotely a problem for communities like yours. He shot back, “we get VILE emails from postal employees….that have words that even the gutter hasn’t heard of!” I guess it’s the virtual version of ‘Going Postal.’
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