On Thu, 18 Jul 2002 14:05:52 -0700, Chuq Von Rospach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:

> Stupid filtering trick of the day. We're getting a bunch of throwbacks from
> a content filter today, because on one of the lists, someone had the
> audacity to use the phrase "for free", and his message, and all that quote
> him, are being bounced as inappropriate content.
> 
> One can only wonder at the logic that leads someone to think a filter like
> this actually causes more good than harm. Ah, there's the word... "think".

A whole article on stupid content filtering and how it affects mailing lists
can be found at <http://db.tidbits.com/getbits.acgi?tbart=06866> (with a
followup at <http://db.tidbits.com/getbits.acgi?tbart=06869>).

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