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Subject:	Re: member id's: simple numbers or something more?
Newsgroups:	lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.general
Date:	Mon, 5 Jul 1999 08:04:21 GMT
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Todd Lehman skrev i meddelandet <377fa446.2704266@lugnet.com>... > > On the social side, and this is probably the bigger concern, there are all > sorts of possible usernames that walk the gray area between what would pass > and what would fail. Certainly there are things that would obviously fail > that weren't offensive, and things that would obviously pass that weren't > offensive, but things aren't always black and white. Yeah, and don't forget other languages! What's perfectly clean in English, may be an insult in another language (no examples will be given), and vice versa. As a side note (I think I have mentioned it before?), the name LUGNET has many obvious meanings in Swedish: 1 - 'The calm' (IOW lugnet is 'tranquility base') 2 - A famous Swedish arena for winter sports, mainly ski jumping. 3 - An industrial area in Stockholm, which burned down yesterday -- Anders Isaksson, Sweden BlockCAD: http://user.tninet.se/~hbh828t/proglego.htm Gallery: http://user.tninet.se/~hbh828t/gallery.htm

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		Re: member id's: simple numbers or something more?
(...) That's another reason to restrict the member-ID's only to representations of real-life names...that way, if something happens to be obscene in another language, it's obvious that it was based directly on someone's name, and not obscene on (...) (25 years ago, 5-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.general)

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		Re: member id's: simple numbers or something more?
(...) That was a thought, but think about it from the censorship standpoint: On the legal side, when you start trying to filter out things that are offensive or vulgar or profane, you open yourself up to more scrutiny if you then accidentally miss (...) (25 years ago, 4-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.general)

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