Thursday, December 11, 2003
Stupid Sex Filter
I spent time today trying to figure out why three SMART People (i.e. subscribers to The SMART Letter) didn't get their SMART Letter #91. All three work for a well known financial services firm. The bounce message said that my email, "was quarantined because it contained banned content."
The "banned content" turned out to be one word: SEX. The word appeared once in SMART Letter #91 where I used "talking about sex" as an analogy. When I sent one of these SMART People a test message with only the word "sex" in it, it bounced too. When I modified SMART Letter #91 so the word read "s--" . . . well, it hasn't bounced yet.
I wonder whether this financial services firm has correspondence with biotech or medical companies, and if so, which euphemisms for biological facts pass muster.
Boy, talk about a locus of stupidity!
The "banned content" turned out to be one word: SEX. The word appeared once in SMART Letter #91 where I used "talking about sex" as an analogy. When I sent one of these SMART People a test message with only the word "sex" in it, it bounced too. When I modified SMART Letter #91 so the word read "s--" . . . well, it hasn't bounced yet.
I wonder whether this financial services firm has correspondence with biotech or medical companies, and if so, which euphemisms for biological facts pass muster.
Boy, talk about a locus of stupidity!
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