Hi Monks,

i want to build a spam filter for my forum.

when people post topics, i don't want the obvious unnecessary posts. you know, posts that contain words like: 
f word
s word
free p0rn!
free!~!
p enlargement!
etc.

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I also want to be able to perhaps add custom "hot words" to filter out myself.

so how would i carry out this job? is there perhaps a module built for this type of job? i prefer not to use a module, but if needed be, then i will.

my logic goes as:

..read csv file, split hotwords into @hotwords

foreach my $d (@hotwords) {

.....use a if statement with some sort of regex to see if the hotwords
+ fit any pattern inside the forum post msg
}

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Am I on the right track with this?

THANKS!

In reply to Filtering SPAM hot words from Message Post by Anonymous Monk

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