This is pretty much impossible to do. There's no filter that's anywhere near as sophisticated as the human brain. You won't be able to catch all the possible variations of "password" someone can come up with, or the probably several billion ways of identifying a password string in a username to another human being. If you want to do it, the best way is to catch them by hand. Or just let them slide - I think their impact will be minimal.
Saurabh
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In message 20030205123414.H22575@joey.bomis.com, Jimmy Wales said:
Eric Demolli wrote:
Well the solution is obvious : refuse any user name that contain the substring "password". Is there any John Password here ?
It seems like an even better solution is to just stop it cold so that it will just go away. If someone wants to explain just what technological point of it is, then we can see if it's worth trying to accomodate it in some more sensible way.
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