[ih] Found the bug - a word to avoid....

[Brian E Carpenter]

I wonder if this message will make it:
Quoting Wikipedia, "Scunthorpe (/ˈskʌnθɔːrp/) is a large market and industrial town in the North Lincolnshire borough in Lincolnshire, England."

In the early days of kiddie filters, that town could not be mentioned. Wikipedia has an article dedicated to the Scunthorpe problem. I think it's incomplete, because I definitely remember reading about it as a specific problem for the first efforts at content filtering in the UK. But it doesn't mention the H-word as a problem.

I don't think any list server should be running snowflake filters. 

Regards
   Brian Carpenter

On 13-Sep-20 16:33, the keyboard of geoff goodfellow via Internet-history wrote:
> your truly would summarily posit that if there is one "forbidden" word
> there are likely others...?
> 
> WHO decides what they are and WHY is any mail sent with any of them just
> /dev/null'd¿
> 
> isn't one of The Central Tenets of email: messages are never "lost" and if
> an email cannot be delivered for whatever a reason, then the sender of said
> message is summarily notified via a "bounce" message of some sort?
> 
> ERGO, it seems that the IH list apparatus or some part there of is in
> summary violation with This Central Email Tenet, no?
> 
> geoff
> 
> On Sat, Sep 12, 2020 at 6:25 PM Joseph Touch via Internet-history <
> internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
> 
>> Hi, all,
>>
>> So here’s what happened at least to Karl’s attempted post - and everyone
>> (including me) in their attempt to repost.
>>
>> The word is “h o o k u p” (without the spaces).
>>
>> You can say “hook-up” or “hook up”. But you can’t put the letters together
>> without spaces or hyphens.
>>
>> Why?
>>
>> — I have NO IDEA —
>>
>> I’m going to claim this is a bug because it’s not on any of the pages I’ve
>> configured. It’s not triggering the spam filter. It’s just a bug somewhere.
>>
>> I’ll report it, but in the meantime -
>>
>>         - if you had a post fall on the floor, please check if you used
>> that magic word. If so, please re-post with a hyphen or space
>>
>> Joe
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