After hearing things like your babelfish story, I'm not surprised at anything
any more.  Once I posted a (completely serious) message to another mailing list
about a database problem and used the word "joke."  Immediately I got back a
long automated email from some company in England that chastised me for sending
jokes and/or profanity into their email system.  So it wouldn't surprise me if
some brain-dead filter system blocked the Constitution.

Sometimes I scare myself,
Wayne




"Metzger, Phil (COMPRINT S)" <[log in to unmask]> on 07/11/2000 03:32:11
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Ye gods, I must interject.
It was a joke.
Partly an inside joke, as we have found some silly reasons for blockages.
The biggest and best is http://babelfish.altavista.com
<http://babelfish.altavista.com>  which is a site for translating words and
phrases into various languages.  We are blocked.
Reason : profanity 1 nudity 1 fullnudity 1 sex 1 gross 1 racist 1 satanic 1
drug 1 militant 1 gambling 1 alcohol 1

So, I made a ludicrous comment coupled with a jibe at Uncle Sam and didn't
expect it to be anything but giggled at.

Here, and now, I'm making a stand.  I refuse to be taken seriously.  If I
actually try that link and I do get blocked, I'll retract my retraction, but
as it stands now, it was merely in jest.

Some people scare me,
Phil