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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A50645-2004Aug8_2.html
Justice Uncensored
Good news for trash-talkin' folks at the Justice Department's office
of justice programs. The Mail Marshal, or net nanny that kicked back
e-mails containing unspecified "unacceptable" or "inappropriate"
language, is no longer doing so. The "content filtering function,"
officials told the OJP union folks last week, has been "disabled." So
you can talk like Vice President Cheney all you want.
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I guess Dick Cheyny finally got pissed off about having all his email rejected.
larry
On Mon, 9 Aug 2004 08:58:01 -0400, Larry C. Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Aren't you sure that it wouldn't be Ashcroft leading the pack? From
> last Friday's In the Loop column from the Washington Post.
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> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43864-2004Aug5.html
>
> Scales of Justice Weigh Naughty Words
>
> Speaking of the beleaguered English language, the Justice Department
> is reported to be monitoring employee e-mail traffic for naughty
> words, according to an employees union.
>
> AFSCME Local 2830 President Stu Smith said he learned last week that
> an automated device known as the "MailMarshal" blocks messages when it
> spots "unacceptable language, or inappropriate material." Two
> employees got messages from the "net nanny," Smith said, telling them:
> "Please clean-up or re-phrase the message and send it again."
>
> This electronic program also apparently gives a numerical weighting or
> score to each of the various bad words it discovers, he said, so that
> the worse the word, the higher the score.
>
> Smith, whose union represents folks in the Office of Justice Programs,
> said he has asked officials what this was all about. "Is it for
> disciplinary purposes?" he asked. "We don't know." But it seems clear
> this is "not for security," he said.
>
> Well, lots of Internet providers have smut filters so parents can
> protect kids from dirty words. And the Justice Department is known to
> be sensitive to matters of taste and morality. Attorney General John
> D. Ashcroft spent $8,000 for a giant curtain so visitors would be
> protected from the sight of a statue of a woman with one bare breast.
>
> Smith says he has also asked for a list of the "bad" words but has not
> received an answer. Maybe they've tried to send him the list, but for
> some reason it just keeps getting kicked back?
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>
> No wonder Dick Cheyny never seems to send out email. It always gets
> rejected by this net nanny.
>
> BTW Al Kamen's column is strictly a news, humour and rumour column on
> life in the Federal Government.
>
> larry
>
>
> On Mon, 9 Aug 2004 08:47:02 -0400, John Stanley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I think the Bush response to this letter would be as follows:
> >
> > A hurried gathering at the local church followed by a pig roast and a raffle
> > whilest the elders meet in secret. Then your "friend" would be declared a
> > seed of the devil and chased mercilessly throughout the land until cornered
> > in a barn and immolated by the "righteous".
> >
> > Then Bush would proudly stand upon the ashes and speak
> >
> > "Today was a great day for the god-fearin' 'merican people. They no longer
> > have to fear the attacks of this terrorist devil spawn. I say this with all
> > sincerity, that the People of the United States are much safer with out
> > Saddam Hussein in power. At any time he could have aligned himself with with
> > this devil child and called forth the forces of hell itself to attack this
> > great nation. We are only as safe as my competence allows. Thank you very
> > much."
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: S. Isaac Dealey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Defense of Marriage
> >
> > To: US President George W. Bush
> > Subject: Defense of Marriage
> > _____
> >
> >
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