news 28 Posted February 23, 2009 Hello, Please consider the following press release for inclusion on your site. http://www.messagepartners.com/2009/02/23/offensive-words-list-released-by-message-partners/ Thank you very much! Regards, Sharon Smith linuxpr ( -at -) yahoo.com Offensive Words List Released by Message Partners February 23, 2009 New Rochelle, NY – Message Partners released into the public domain the world’s most extensive offensive language list for use with a spam filter. This offensive word list includes hundreds of thousands of permutations of [censored]ually explicit language. Message Partners compiled this bad words list based on six years of close cooperation with its customers. The list is available for free with MPP Core, a leading anti spam filter, email compliance and email archiving product targeted at Apple Xserve, Linux, Solarisand FreeBSD Open Source Mail Transfer Agents like Postfix and Qmail.  Internet Service Providers, who provide ISP, email hosting and website hosting services, as well as SMB and SME enterprises like schools, universities, research institutes, local government and small businesses use the Offensive Language List to protect their users from [censored]ography. Institutions that are under severe public scrutiny use this bad words list as an extra layer of protection. Message Partners has released the Offensive Words List into the public domain and is soliciting contributions in an effort to make it the most comprehensive list available in the English language. Suggested additions can be made as “Comments†at the bottom of the list on the Message Partners web site, www.messagepartners.com. After vetting, new and unique contributions will be added to the list. Message Partners is also interested in compiling similar lists for its overseas customers. If you have a public domain list in a foreign language, please forward it as an attachment to offensivelistmaintainer ( -at -) messagepartners.com.   “Protecting minors from online predatorsand spammers is important mission for Message Partners,â€Â  says Michael Katz, CEO, Message Partners. “The Offensive Language List is an incredibly effect tool that plugs the holes in dynamic spam filters.  We need the help of community to make this defense system as impregnable as possible.†MPP 4.8 is a premier spam filter, email archive, email compliance application for Open Source mail gateways and mail solutions.  Based on world class Policy Management Controls, MPP offers the highest grade spam filteringavailable, multi-domain configuration and multi-level spam quarantine management. MPP is a modular application that combines best-of-breed Open Source and commercial anti virus and antispamtechnologies to make comprehensive mail filtering, email archiving and mail compliance solutions possible. MPP supports the Open Source MTA’s Postfix, Sendmail, Qmail and Exim.  Other Open Source projects supported include MySQL, OpenLDAP, ClamAV , SpamAssassin and others. MPP runs under Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris and on Xserve. MPP is available as software or as a VMware virtual server. About Message Partners – http://messagepartners.com  Message Partners, based in New Rochelle, New York, is the producer of the Message Processing Platform or MPP. MPP offers clients a comprehensive suite of spam filters, email policy management,email compliance and mail archivesolutions focused on the Open Source and Apple environments. MPP is based on proven technology, integrates with leading anti spam and antivirus products and currently is installed in client mail systemsthat process billions of emails per day. Contact Info: offensivelistmaintainer ( -at -) messagepartners.com Share this post Link to post