> ... and promptly got a "This email has been rejected by an email content
> filtering system" reply from a Microsoft-powered server running at
> www.taxware.com .
> Oh,Oh - Mr. Branson must have hard times using eMail communication for his
> business(es).


This stuff is really, really, serious. Like those idiot web filters that
block sites based on list or criteria that the company won't let anyone see.
Until someone manages to hack it out and then everyone discovers what sort
of internal biases it has (Martin Luther King related material, for example
was blocked, if my memory serves me right).

V-I-R-G-I-N? They are truly m-o-r-o-n-s. As you rightly point out, that's a
legitimate major global business! What if you were trying to tell someone at
that company you were arriving tomorrow on a V-r-g-n Atlantic flight at 8am
and to meet them at the airport. How about the phrase "V-I-R-G-I-N
TERRITORY", or a whole state of the United States that contains that string!

Someone needs to prise open one of these email filtering softwares and see
what sort of deranged view of the world it represents.

Dog breeders, airlines, mobile phone companies, US States, what next?




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