• NightGod (unregistered) in reply to TInkerghost
    TInkerghost:
    EQ1 used to filter cockatrice. "You have killed a ****atrice." clbuttic
    EQ2 STILL filters-makes auctioning a Golden Cockatrice Feather interesting...
  • david (unregistered)

    Censored at a large international tobacco company. Our salesman was suggesting that they "do the right thing" and buy our software, but the mail never went through. Him and the customer eventually cut the otherwise innocuous mail message down to just this one phrase.

    Evidently large international tobacco companies get so much unsolicited mail urging them to "to the right thing" that the IT department had added it to the spam filter.

  • John (unregistered) in reply to tray
    tray:
    Wow. Didn't know that an extensive f-ck* was worth 6 basic ones.

    The length of the f-ck* definitely matters. Extensive, intensive, bed squeaking f-ck*s are worth at least 6 basic ones.

  • Peter (unregistered)

    We had a new filter that caught anyone using a Secuity Classification in teh text - Restricted, Confidential, Secret etc. They also decided to append to the bottom of everyoutgoing email a legal disclaimer - which started "This email is restriced to the intended recipient........".

    No work done by the whole company for two days.

  • jk (unregistered) in reply to biziclop
    biziclop:
    There are three English football teams that always fall victim to overzealous censorship: Arsenal, Scunthorpe and Manchester Fucking United.

    best reply ever.

  • Mr (unregistered) in reply to methinks
    methinks:
    Old Coder:
    In the UK, buggering is what (male) homosexuals do to one another.

    But I'm not a native speaker - perhaps the connotation is always pertaining to homosexual sex - or is it?

    I'm not a native speaker either, but I think it's only used for homosexual sex.

  • Mirar (unregistered)

    This kind of reminds me when I tried to mail someone about problems with a VIA Graphics adapter...

  • (cs) in reply to Mr
    Mr:
    methinks:
    Old Coder:
    In the UK, buggering is what (male) homosexuals do to one another.

    But I'm not a native speaker - perhaps the connotation is always pertaining to homosexual sex - or is it?

    I'm not a native speaker either, but I think it's only used for homosexual sex.

    I AM a native speaker- it just means anal sex, no other connotations.

  • Loren Pechtel (unregistered) in reply to Crabs
    Crabs:
    This is easy enough to do. Algorithm: Find all repeating letters, replace them with the singular letter. Find all characters " ", "-", etc. that follow "words" that are not in your dictionary, replace them with empty string ("sh " replaced with "sh"). Search for words in your expletive dictionary.

    This should find most everything.

    What is this, the virgin algorithm? It will never find pussy nor ass!

  • Loren Pechtel (unregistered) in reply to Peter
    Peter:
    We had a new filter that caught anyone using a Secuity Classification in teh text - Restricted, Confidential, Secret etc. They also decided to append to the bottom of everyoutgoing email a legal disclaimer - which started "This email is restriced to the intended recipient........".

    No work done by the whole company for two days.

    Our company implemented one of those stupid disclaimers some time ago. I STILL haven't been able to get management to understand the problem: Something about that disclaimer triggers every generic spam filter (not the baynsean ones) I've ever seen look at one of the messages. Just because it never causes problems in-house (the company domain is whitelisted) doesn't mean it isn't going to cause messages to go missing dealing with customers.

  • Loren Pechtel (unregistered)

    Americans should be embar***ed to filter such things while we have a Dick and a Bush in the White House!

    (And yes, I once had an aggressive profanity filter do that censored word.)

  • Name Withheld (unregistered)

    After we started getting hit by a another companies filter I had a look down the first 20 or so names on our phone list (a-d) and found... man bra pleb die bitch heck hit bet dick, and worst of all:- aol

  • Tim (unregistered) in reply to wund3rkind

    A bit like the problems the towns Scunthorpe and Penistone had in the UK - blocked by AOL and Google and others that were filtering on parts of words...

  • (cs)

    Ah yes, reminds me of the web forum for a school recreational computing society I used to belong to... when I made one of those "clbuttic" mistakes (or maybe it was something about "buttbuttination" of some public figure or more likely "buttigning" a value to a variable), I decided to test the filter out and wound up with abominations like "Thingy Tracy" and "I thought I saw a girl thingycat"! (try figuring THAT one out! :P)

  • JustChris (unregistered)

    My university's email filter system bounced back one of the professor's emails, whose last name is Porn. My boss was beginning to think she was unable to reply back as follow-ups to his faculty seminars.

  • Ben (unregistered) in reply to wund3rkind
    wund3rkind:
    This reminds me of the story where stocks of a German Company called "FAG Kugelfischer" could not be traded for a day at the NYSE after they turned on a swear word filter in their trading system.

    Even better if you know that "Kugelfischer" could be translated as "balls fisherman", which sounds like a very creative slur.

  • Kawazoe (unregistered)

    The stangest thing is not that f-ck* is both basic and extensive. It's that they weight does not match.

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