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Re: [Asrg] Body signature subgroup and the forwarding project



Then, you can well imagine the grief I have had getting mail from a man i work 
with who's last name is Porn :-)

On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 09:43:33PM +0100, Craig Cockburn wrote:
> In message <1123665073.4208.2.camel at tardis.isode.net>, David Wilson 
> <David.Wilson at isode.com> writes
> >On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 12:31 -0400, der Mouse wrote:
> >>> - Offending language: I found that especially US-made spam filter
> >>>   programs are prepared to educate users and to block lists of sexual
> >>>   offending or vulgar language.
> >>
> >>Which is particularly amusing when applied to mail in other languages,
> >>in which such sequences of characters do not carry the same meaning.
> >>(The closest example I know of offhand is Norwegian, in which "fart" is
> >>a noun meaning, approximately, "speed" - probably related to German
> >>"fahrt".)
> >
> >And then there are programs which take substrings and object to them.
> >There was the case publicised some years ago about the program which
> >objected to the name of the East coast town in England: 'Scunthorpe'.
> >
> >(and if you are too innocent to spot the problem, well done you).
> >
> 
> And the first four letters of my surname have caused no end of problems
> See here
> http://tinyurl.com/8f7pr
> 
> 
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