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Re: ScanMail Message: To Sender, sensitive content found



Hi,

The various filtering software products can have some fairly
"over-cautious" reactions.  For example, a lot of such software would
exclude any messages with the following words/terms:
chicken breast
Anne Sexton
Mars Explorer
Essex
Dick Whittington
Penistone Press

Of course, those of you with such software will never see this message;>.

Cheers,

Susie

Mary Sue Stephenson
Senior Instructor & Coordinator of Information Technology
School of Library, Archival and Information Studies
The University of British Columbia
Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1
604.822-6392 [voice]  604.822.6006 [fax]

On Wed, 22 Aug 2001, Osier, Nina wrote:

> Harry's right, Nancy.  It's a filter.  I had that happen to me when posting
> from my home computer to a favorite message board; *I* didn't think I was
> using a bad word, but the board's filtering software did - and boy, did I
> get a warning!  "This word is considered offensive.  This is your first
> warning," it said.  Adding that if I did it a second and third time, the sky
> would fall on me...no, actually, it only said I'd be barred from posting
> there.
[snip]

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