Hello: A couple of months ago I sent Glenn a private email in which "Osama Bin Laden" was part of the "Subject:" header. The message was returned to me by Glenn's ISP with a note saying that it would not be delivered because they didn't like the subject line.
I changed the subject line. The new subject line made no reference to the world's most infamous villian and I sent the same message along with a note to Glenn to inform him of what had happened to my message the first time I had tried to send it. Glenn wrote back to me saying that he had taken up the matter of censorship of subject headers with his ISP. He said that his ISP had denied that they indulge in censorship of emails about any particular subject matter, despite evidence to the contrary. (I had forwarded to Glenn a copy of my bounced mail notice from the postmaster of his ISP.) Today I sent a message to the newsgroup "alt.military.retired" in which the name of the world's most infamous villain was part of the subject line. Neither the subject nor my message was off topic in this newsgroup. Furthermore, none of the messages posted to any of the newsgroups of the "alt" hierachy are supposed to be moderated or censored. I sent the same message twice. It didn't make it to the newsgroup on either attempt to send. At my end it appeared as though the messages were sent successfully. I received no bounce notices from the daemons and I received no error messages from my mail and news client, Nettamer. These messages failed to make it to the newsgroup. I wonder what is going on. Of course I have no reason to suspect that my government might be spying on me because I am neither a supporter nor an apologist for the world's most infamous villian. Has anybody else experienced any problems with sending emails or newsgroup messages in which the name of the world's most infamous villian is a part of the subject line? Sam Heywood -- This mail was written by user of The Arachne Browser - http://arachne.cz/
