On Fri, 28 Dec 2001 19:19:30 -0500, Glenn McCorkle wrote: > On Thu, 27 Dec 2001 18:32:45 -0400, Clarence Verge wrote:
>> On Thu, 27 Dec 2001 18:04:34 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote: >>> On Thu, 27 Dec 2001 16:50:02 -0400, L.D. Best wrote: >>>> Why don't you try using the subject with one of the accepted alternative >>>> spellings like "Oshama" or Bin Lauden vs. Bin Laden and see what >>>> various ISPs do with the message. If you find a place where you get >>>> kickbacks that can be duplicated, try narrowing it down by omitting a >>>> single element of the subject ... send with Osama bin or bin lauden or >>>> whatever and see if somewhere someone's fear is operating to "protect >>>> the users" from exposure. >>> I would like to do that; however, most would-be recipients would feel >>> annoyed with receiving silly little test messages to which they might >>> feel obligated to respond. >> For starters, try sending the messages to yourself. ;-) > Great minds *do* think alike. > I just tested it. > Empty message (only my sig file, no message body) > Subject line... osama bin laden > No problem. > I then forwarded that message to my own address and to Sam. > This forward was placed intop my inbox with no problems. > So far... no "bounce back". > As Sam pointed-out. > We tested it on the message in question and the "OBL block" > was on my end. (CisNet.com) > As my test just a few minutes ago shows, > This "block" has now been removed. Happy to hear that your ISP is no longer censoring your messages. BTW, I did receive the BCC of the message you forwarded to me, subject: osama bin laden. A message I sent twice to the newsgroup "alt.military.retired" failed to post, possibly because the name of the person in question appeared on the subject line. I received no bounced message notice from any ISP. The message just failed to post, even though I had sent it twice. They ought to at least tell us when they are censoring our messages. When you are in US Armed Forces they always tell you up front whenever they want to censor your outgoing snail mail and they also tell you what not to write about. Sam Heywood -- This mail was written by user of The Arachne Browser - http://arachne.cz/
