Pommier, Rex R. wrote on 4/24/2006 3:25 PM:
Sorry, Gil, but I have to disagree with you here. I have no say over
the spam/porn/naughty word filter in use here,
You can complain to the people managing your email system. If that
doesn't work, don't subscribe to mailing lists from your work address.
Simple.
I decided 9 years ago that using an employer's address for anything
other than direct company-related business was just a pain. That's
because I had to notify 200 people and resubscribe to a dozen mailing
lists on my previous job switch. The second time, I decided that had to
be the last time. I was still getting email to my USC address 3 years
after leaving USC. About the same for my next email address. Never again.
Content filters are evil. They probably started as spam filters for
incompetent admins. I don't want my email screened by someone else's
idea of what's offensive.
BTW, another part of this thread was in reference to stupid filters
which find offense embedded in larger words. As the listowner for
ISPF-L, my source of irritation is filters which reject sample REXX or
ISPF panel code looking like this:
*** = value
where * is the 24th letter of the English alphabet. That's standard
sample code.
The best ones of course are the moron filters which rejected Lionel's
XMITIP announcements because they didn't like his last name. For that
one, I posted an [ADMIN] message suggesting that people get their email
admins to bypass the filters for mailing lists such as ISPF-L so that
they don't miss postings.
/Leonard
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