From: glen mccready
To: 0xdeadbeef@substance.abuse.blackdown.org Date: Mon, 02 Feb 1998 09:57:40 -0500
Forwarded-by: Nev Dull <nev@bostic.com> http://samsara.law.cwru.edu/comp_law/cybersit.html =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Subject: Phone head From: guy@netapp.com (Guy Harris) It appears that Cybersitter may filter out the phrase "phone head"; the censor file includes [wild,wet,net,cyber,have,making,having,getting,giving,phone][sex,love,head] Of course, it'd also filter out "wet head". Oh, and it might filter out "the folks at home": [mom,mother,father,dad,parents,folks,momanddad,momordad][,at,come][around,home ] But it would *not* filter out "white separatist": [white][power,supremacy,seperatist,militia] I guess none of those white separatists can spell.... On the other hand, maybe we can just get the IRA to blow them up; the list also had: [sinnfein] It would also get "you are an idiot": [you][are][,a,an,too,to][stupid,dumb,ugly,fat,idiot,ass,fag,dolt,dummy] although all the person who decrypted the Cybersitter censorfile did was, presumably, suck the text out of it, so we don't know what it does once it's done a pattern match. And, of course, it gets [pam,pamela][.htm,.html] Where would we be without Ms. Anderson Lee? BTW, there's another version of that information, at http://www.moebius.com.au/CSlist.html which is a bit better organized; it claims that the words in question are words that "Cybersitter scans for and removes from *all text* which is sent or received over an IP connection while the program is active", which has very amusing effects if you're shipping source code over TCP or UDP (those of you on "/dev/null", and to whom I forwarded the note sent to "/dev/null", have seen an example of those effects...). It lists some of the domain names in Cybersitter's list, including "godiva.com" (the division of Campbell's - yes, the soup people; as I remember, they bought Godiva's - who make chocolates) and "accounting.com", offering careers in accountancy (I guess, as the Monty Python sketch says, "chartered accountancy isn't boring").