John Mays>> And for a "laster" laugh ...
>> Someone inside my company got a notice for inappropriate email for
>> sending this very article.
>> Political correctness run amok I suppose.
>> John Mayson
>> Austin, Texas, USA
>> [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: No, not 'political correctness' run
>> amok but an overabundance of spam/scam which makes email filters
>> necessary. This is a perfect example of why email/web site filters do
>> _not_ work as they should. People who attempt to legitimatly discuss
>> ED (erectile disfunction) run into the same problems on the web as the
>> people who wish to legiimatly discuss breast cancer. It cannot be done
>> without having to fend off _thousands_ of email items from jackasses. >> PAT]
> Point taken.
> My wife is a school teacher. I had hurt my back and I sent her an
> email describing the pain as "throbbing" which was immediately
> rejected by her system's spam filter.
> Some people who graduated "magna cum laude" have had their resumes rejected.
> What I meant by "political correctness" was humans go to such lengths
> not to offend (and expose themselves to lawsuits) that they program
> computers to go to ridiculous lengths to "protect" us from each other.
> John Mayson
> Austin, Texas, USA
I have a Yahoo Group where in a main page description about outages of hot water heaters I mentioned plug-in heaters to put in pails as are used in a barnyard. "Barnyard" caused a rejection of my Yahoo Group main page update.
Trying to mention the TV show "Sex in the City" caused same problem.
I anxiously await Google Groups to be able to replace Yahoo Groups
[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: So the Yahoo people have all become idiots in recent years ... so what else is old news? The real problem is the amount of spam and the spam-enablers who keep insisting that filters are the solution. PAT]