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(a)joey.bomis.com>om>, 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.
--Jimbo
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