I agree that technical solutions are likely to backfire.  The more you try
to manipulate people, the more manipulative (or apathetic, or defiant etc.
etc.) they become ;-)

Nonetheless if such policing is for some reason important (and I am no
judge of that!), then you might consider Majordomo (or maybe a Listserv mod
could do this?) which can do this via the Taboo_headers or taboo_body"
portion of the M'domo list config:

A sample regex

taboo_body          <<  END
/\naughty word one\b/i
/\naughty word two\b/i

"The Major" bounces the "taboo" messages to the listowner, who can either
edit the message or over-ride the bounce and release it to the
list.  Majordomo is not anything like so powerful as Listserv, but if you
don't need the many features of Listserv and this is your biggest concern,
it is an option at least --but one to consider carefully since you might be
just trading one set of problems for another larger set.

I hope that it isn't ~heresy to present this option on a Listserv
discussion list. Listserv is ~always my first choice and very favorite
service. --but there are times when we don't get to choose.

Cheers,  Louise
Listowner, Penstemon-L (Listserv)
and listowner of various small Majordomo and Listproc lists.

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At 05:03 AM 3/28/01 , you wrote:
>Valdis said it already . . .  there are no technological solutions to
>psychological problems....  if you don't want bad words distributed on
>your list, put your email address on the Editor= list header keyword and
>do the filtering yourself - there is no other way. But I do like the
>Slugger idea too!   ;)
>
> >>> [log in to unmask] 03/27/01 09:48PM >>>
>Good evening,
>
>I am wondering if there is any way that I can prevent subscribers from using
>profanity on the list.