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Re: ScanMail Message: To Sender, sensitive content found



Maybe those odd folks who give their kids bizarre names that border on the
(or are utterly) unpronounceable are on to something. Or perhaps we should
all have our names changed to generic numbers and symbols so that we don't
offend the all-important computer.

Doing my best to stay abreast of the situation,

Thomas Berry, a.k.a. drone875<>1233?)(q
Historical Construction Equipment Association
16623 Liberty Hi Road
Bowling Green, Ohio 43402
Phone 419-352-5616
Fax 419-352-6086
tberry@hcea.net
http://www.hcea.net




----- Original Message -----
From: "Wood, Thomas" <Wood.Thomas@UIS.EDU>
To: <ARCHIVES@LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU>
Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2001 10:27 AM
Subject: 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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