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Re: Bye, bye LUGNET
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Date: 
Tue, 1 Mar 2005 20:56:27 GMT
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Paul Sinasohn wrote:
IMHO,

It would take a huge amount of processing power to analyze the text of every
single post. THat's why human brains do it here, not computers.

umm... I think you underestimate just how fast the lugnet server
hardware is and that the posts are already indexed to be searchable.

This url (which has been sanitized) found all occourances of one
of 7 dirty words in 0.2 seconds.  To get them all would take negligable
time and effort .

try it yourself : )

http://news.lugnet.com/?q=fsck

things like spaces, etc can easily be filtered with a regex.

-JSM



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