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From: "Mel Smith" <med_cutout_syntel@aol.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.javascript
Subject: Re: Eliminate abusive, hostile, indecent text from <textarea>
Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2013 07:51:21 -0700
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Stefan said:

> Since you asked if there's a prebuilt JS function to bleep offensive
> text: nothing like that is built into the language (or browser APIs, to
> the best of my knowledge). I'm sure plenty of people have written JS
> libraries to filter bad language. Based on my reservations about the
> whole concept, I couldn't recommend one, even if I knew any. But if you
> want to find out just how well automatic censoring works in practice, go
> ahead and try one of those.


Hi Stefan:

    O.k., I'll go googling for a pre-built JS abusive language filter and 
see what I can find.

Thank you and the responders for the hints, warnings, and mild derision

-Mel