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If it was the prince of ***** those spam emails might have been more interesting to read…
Then again I have nothing to compare them to since I never read those.
Moral: filters sometimes need a lot of details to work and not screw up the text.
Not nearly as funny as the filters that turned sprinter Rudy Gay into Rudy Homosexual.
My fave is when Yahoo filters out the phrase “wish it” to be “wi*****”. Obviously you would never end a word with sh and start the next word with it, or use the word it. Clearly its just a crafty attempt to *gulp* swear!
Often touted as an urban legend, this rephrasing actually happened, although it was a practical joke, not a politically correct overapplication of the search-and-replace function.
Lex–if you mean this instance? It’s not old enough to be urban legend.
They are being niggardly with the allowed strings.
MLD—
Lex is one those people who are going to Hell after they die because they treat hyperlinking as part of the semantics of a sentence. He is also amongst those people who are going to Hell after they die because they anchor links to the wrong elements. Click on “actually happened” to find what he meant “this rephrasing” to refer. Then goe to church and snuff a candle for him.
what’s a noobian?
Oh, for heaven’s sake. who the hell spells nigerian with two g’s?
Sadly, too many people.
recount the Astrix
N****ian
NIGERian
Cato, I could go to hell for any number of things, but using different words for a link from the words you think should have been used probably wouldn’t make the top 100 on the list.
MLD: Things (and people) age faster in the newspaper bidness. I got out at 49 and don’t look a day over 70.
I think spam filters have something to do with it. Maybe when you email something with the word Nigerian in it, it has a tendency to go to spam. So someone wrote something with the ****s, but forgot to spell the word out in the final product.
This was probably caused by someone setting up a filter on their computer to star-out the word ‘nigger’ – but obviously they spelt it wrong and told it to censor ‘niger’.
Oh, I miscounted the stars, thought he was Narnian.
Or would that have been Telmarine?
sorry guys. this was yahoo’s standard policy for several years until abt 2 months ago. if you were in one of their chat groups and mentioned nigeria or any variation of such all you got was the asterisks. big brother and political correctness stands tall and proud. free speech isn’t nearly as important as the possibility of offending someone.
didn’t his under wear just catch fire