On Wednesday 27 February 2002 17:52, Seth Finkelstein wrote: > >On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 03:50:20PM -0500, Matthew Gaylor wrote: > > I'm carbon copying this message to Seth Finkelstein, who I consider > > the pit bull of the anti-censorware opposition. And I have a > > question for Seth- Dell's use of the paraphrase comment "illegal > > purposes" reminds me of the various categories that filtering > > software uses to describe a site. I wonder if Dell didn't run the > > Weigand site into a filtering application to make the decision not > > to sell one of their computers to him?] > > I called Dell to try to verify the story myself before > commenting. An official response I received seems to indicate that > they did indeed flag "Weigand Combat Handguns Inc." as suspicious from > the word "Combat": > > "We recently received an order from a customer whose company name > included the word "combat." We cancelled the order to give us enough > time to follow up with the customer and be assured that the sale > would be in compliance with U.S. export law."
This excuse sounds incredibly bogus. Since when do you *cancel* an order in order to check up on if it is legal for you to ship to them? Sounds like someone putting their "Dell Dough" in the wrong place...
