[dev] Filters vs. filtering

Chuck Hagenbuch chuck@horde.org
Fri, 23 Mar 2001 09:11:24 -0500


Quoting "Brent J. Nordquist" <bjn@horde.org>:

> My preference would be to have the term "filter" refer to sorting and
> selection of email messages, dropping into folders, etc.  So we'd need a
> term for the profanity blocking kind.

I agree.

> I would have said "censor" except that's a pretty emotionally charged
> word.  :-)  The best I've been able to come up with (pre-caffeine) is
> "word block" or "redaction".

sanitize_text?

-chuck

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