"John W. Kennedy" <> wrote in message
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> Joe Attardi wrote:
>> On Mar 7, 4:26 pm, Lew <l...@nospam.lewscanon.com> wrote:
>>> It does have a lot of misspellings. Are these intentional, to reveal how
>>> they
>>> may be misspelled in the real world?
>>
>> That was my guess. But what's curious is that this string is one of
>> the 'bad words':
>> "perl java lisp php"
>>
>> ???
>>
>> What's up with that? There are also some (idiot, homosexual, gay for
>> example) that really don't belong on a blacklist of words (IMHO).
>
> It depends. On an official board for fans of something or someone, for
> example, you want to catch potential flamebait. I grant it's pesky when
> you write, e.g., "Rather than being innovative, Microsoft has actually
> retarded progress in the software industry," and get gigged for using the
> R-word, but there you are....
No it's completely ridiculous.
When I keep getting mailed time sensitive assembly instructions for a module
that needs to be delivered to a client and it keeps not showing up - just to
find out the bitch IT department is quarantining the message because the
word "screw" appeared in it too many times.
Spam filters are stupid.
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LTP