Saw this concept taken to another step (editing of vanity plates)...I
don't recall the state (was it Texas or Florida) that set out to make
sure the text of the plate was not obscene when read backwards (as would
occur from your review mirror from the car behind you).

Regards,

Ray Shahan

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Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] OT: Editing out "vulgar" words

Reminds me of one of the first computer jobs I ever had. For the
California
Department of Motor Vehicles. California had just recently started
issuing
"vanity plates" (personalized license plates). They wanted a computer
program that would prevent any "obscene, vulgar, offensive, abusive,
hateful, harassing, profane, sexually oriented, and threatening" words
being
issued as license plates. Problem was, they did not want just regularly
spelled words. They also wanted to find any misspelled words or
letter/number combinations which could be pronounced or interpreted as
word
or phrase that might be a problem. To add insult, we were asked to make
sure
the program could predict future uses of words to eliminate anything
which
might become obscene after the plate was issued.

Have fun!

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