The Home Page rules-- for the umpteenth time

[Frank Damp]

Ernie:

I agree with culling the "flamers" and maybe some folks are a bit
more loose with profanities than others. Just don't get too carried
away in using commercially available filters.

One group I am a member of won't even allow the usual short-form name
for "Richard". In retaliation, one poster has derived a psuedo-
medical term "encephalophallic" to refer to what others call
a "Richard Cranium".

A good story appeared on the MSN News website a few weeks ago about
the pitfalls of programs designed to replace "rude" words. A school
district installed such a program, which checked incoming student
writings and replaced "objectionable" words with those thought to be
more acceptable. A student wrote a piece about President Lincoln's
assassination. The program though "ass" should be replaced by "butt"
and "tit" by "breast". Unfortunately, it didn't differentiate between
those words as stand-alones and when they're embedded in a perfectly
acceptable word.

As a reult, a student paper was modified by the filter to read
that "The President was buttbuttinated by an armed buttailant who was
angered by the President's work on revising the Consbreastution"