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Re: ScanMail Message: To Sender, sensitive content found



Last year it was reported widely in the news media how the Los Angeles
attorney Sherrill Babcock was unable to apply for an e-mail address from
BlackPlanet.com using her own name. See
http://www.dfn.org/focus/usa/blackplanet.htm

There's also an amusing/frightening page at
http://www.dfn.org/focus/censor/contest.htm that lists the results of a
"Foil the Filter" contest. Some examples: one high school filtered out the
word "high"; a woman named Hillary Anne had problems because "hillaryanne"
contains the word "aryan"; and many web filters reject the web page of
congressman Richard "Dick" Armey....


Thomas J. Wood
Archivist
Archives/Special Collections LIB 144
University of Illinois at Springfield
P.O. Box 19243
Springfield IL 62794-9243
217-206-6520 | wood@uis.edu | http://www.uis.edu/library/lib-arch

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