# Blocking email addresses using profanity filter?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/blocking-email-addresses-using-profanity-filter/39759>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [February 17, 2016, 10:42pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/blocking-email-addresses-using-profanity-filter/39759 "2016-02-17T22:42:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![downey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/downey/32/166878_2.png) [@downey](https://meta.discourse.org/u/downey)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2016, 10:42pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/blocking-email-addresses-using-profanity-filter/39759/1 "2016-02-17T22:42:22Z")

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Continuing the discussion from [Inappropriate / Obscenity / Profanity Language Filter](https://meta.discourse.org/t/inappropriate-obscenity-profanity-language-filter/7993):

So the profanity filter works well … not that we see it used often.

But is there a way to add regex/patterns so it could block people from putting an email address in a post?

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