OT: stupid spam filters (or stupid people who define the rules)

[Brian K. White]

This is ...funny:

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     We apologize but the email from "Brian K. White" <brian at aljex.com> sent 
to [...] on Tue Feb 21 2006 11:42:21 with subject OT: playground can not be 
delivered due to a violation of the Offensive Words Policy because the 
following words were detected:


List:Offensive Words Lexicon
Found the expression "bullshit" 1 times, at 4 points each, for an expression 
score of 4 points.
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Total Message Score: 4 points.
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Aside from the "Who thinks he's holy yet who actually offends more?" thing, 
(The bad word was part of quoting John)
What amuses me is the filter. If this type of mail filter is a good idea, 
then everyone should be able to use it. Ok, suppose I had the same filter 
set up on my server?

My server would see the same bad word, and take the same idiotic anal 
reaction, and the servers would bounce these errors back and forth to each 
other forver and neither I nor the other party would ever see any of them, 
and neither I nor the other party even originally said the bad word.

Then again, if I'd had the same rule, I guess I'd have never received Johns 
original post and so I couldn't quote it, so unless I or the other party 
chose to write a new message containing the bad word, it wouldn't happen.

It's just silly on several levels.

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