list of profanity to block

[Julian Field]

At 01:20 28/05/2004, you wrote:
>Okay...this goes down as a pretty odd request for me :)
>
>My new boss, in trying to impress the president, is taking a complaint
>about a message MS/SA marked as spam, but had a "vulgar" subject line.
>Since they didn't filter it, they saw it.
>
>Anyway,   I've been asked to gather a list of profanity and profane
>expressions that we could possibly filter on.
>
>So, a) is MCP still the best way to filter based on words in the subject
>and b) does anyone have a really naughty list (or George Carlins e-mail
>address?)

MCP is certainly the obvious way to do the filtering, but it has quite a
CPU overhead so is unsuitable for very heavily-loaded servers. But you can
always give it a try and see if you get away with it.
Otherwise add some more subject header rules to the normal SpamAssassin
ruleset and give them really high scores. Then don't deliver high-scoring
spam to your new boss, just delete it (or quarantine it for a few days).
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