On Sun, 2003-06-29 at 11:36, Chr. von Stuckrad wrote: > On Sat, Jun 28, 2003 at 04:29:37PM -0600, Benjamin A. Shelton wrote: > > That's exactly what I was concerned about, Tony: Where does it stop? > > The real poblem will be: 'it never stops'. As long as people do > react irrationally on rational Questions and as long as the > 'what I avoid to see can't anger me' attitude will exists. > (So I do NOT believe in the necessary changes of rationallity any more).
Political correctness never stops, you're right about that. It would probably be seen as politically incorrect if some "turn everything on" admin enabled this feature site-wide, which we all know would happen sooner or later. How politically correct is censoring someone's email anyway? It seems to me that any attempt to contribute to political correctness just leads to political incorrectness, there are a million examples out there if you look for them. Also, this feature would probably increase the number of swearwords in local.cf, making the program itself more unpleasant for a politically correct postmaster to configure, or giving a postmaster who is determined to be politically incorrect an excuse to complain about spamassassin. > But because spamassassin is a very useful tool, and because > exactly those 'mentioned above' would be angered a lot more > without it, please leave them a chance to keep their attitude > and create that 'political correctness (pre/post?)procesing' > Option to make all the *different* correctness(es?) possible. > > It will make spamassassin useable in more places and that's > most important here. An Obscenity Obfuscation Filter might be a nice little project in its own right, but I'm still not convinced that it should be part of spamassassin. As a separate program called after spamassassin it would be more effective (and fairly easy to write), able to censor all the bad words out of spam and ham, and it would be easy to make reversible should the original words be needed for some reason (maybe just rot13 the swearwords?). Simply censoring SA reports will leave all the sender's swearwords in place, even in places where they will be just as easily seen by the recipient. What's the use in removing PENIS from the spam report but not from the subject line or message body? -- Yorkshire Dave ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by: Free pre-built ASP.NET sites including Data Reports, E-commerce, Portals, and Forums are available now. Download today and enter to win an XBOX or Visual Studio .NET. http://aspnet.click-url.com/go/psa00100006ave/direct;at.asp_061203_01/01 _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
