The problem with your suggestion, Dave, is that there is no universally agreed standard about what constitutes acceptable language. Given that Andra's company is in Texas, which is notorious for conservative thinking, I believe that phraseology that is both commonplace and inoffensive where I am (Australia) would be targeted by their email filter software. After all, it's them that construct the list of "hit" words and phrases! There has to be a compromise somewhere! (I almost used b***dy h*ll, but figured that might offend the sensitive hearts of Andra's colleagues.) IMHO, of course.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Dave Taylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 18:15:47 -0700 To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [U2] My company is complaining about the U2 emails > How about cleaning up our mouths. > > Give the offending user 1 warning and remove him/her from the list on the > 2nd offense. > > Anyone who can not express his/her thoughts without the use of foul language > needs to expand his/her vocabulary to be offered the privilege to > participate with the finest group of professionals in the multivalue > community. > > We can not afford to lose our best people because of the thoughtlessness of > a few. > > Have a nice weekend, > > Dave > > Dave Taylor > Sysmark Information Systems, Inc. > 49 Aspen Way > Rolling Hills Estates, CA 90274 > 800-SYSMARK (800-797-6275) > (O) 310-544-1974 > (P) 800-339-1497 > (F) 310-377-3550 > www.sysmarkinfo.com > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Tony Gravagno" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, May 14, 2004 4:58 PM > Subject: RE: [U2] My company is complaining about the U2 emails > > > > Miscellaneous suggestions that can be taken one at a time or combined: > > - Have the mail sent to some non-filtered e-mail server like hotmail and > > then have people poll that server from their normal e-mail client or a > > different one. > > - Get the digest version, zip it, then manually distribute to employees > > periodically. > > - Automate that process as a programming exercise. > > - Pay someone to write up that functionality and send digests. > > - Have someone post digests to an FTP site. > > - Write code to pre-filter mail for bad words then resend it to your U2 > > developers. > > - Read mail through a web interface. > > - Educate the company IT staff on how to properly filter mail with > > combinations of keyword black lists and e-mail address white lists. > > - Get new mail filter software. > > - Get a new IT staff. > > > > HTH, > > Tony > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-u2- > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andra Lozzi > > > Sent: Friday, May 14, 2004 4:14 PM > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Subject: [U2] My company is complaining about the U2 emails > > > > > > I just thought I would let you know that our UniVerse Programing Team > > > has been asked to quit receiving emails from this list because our > > > company's email filter catches a lot of the emails for curse words. > > > Grant it, some of them are relatively minor curse words but I have no > > > control over what they filter. Nor, do I have control of their choice of > > > filtering programs. > > > > > > One of our operators reviews the quarantined emails and forwards those > > > that are work related. This puts a real workload on them when a > > > "cursing" email receives a number of responses. We have 10 UniVerse > > > programmers in our company so it can generate a lot of emails to review. > > > > > > I do not want to have to remove myself, or my programmers, from the list > > > so I thought I would let everyone know how this is affecting the people > > > at my company. > > > > > > Thanks for listening, > > > > > > Andra Lozzi > > > UniVerse Programming Manager > > > Software Quality Assurance Manager > > > Mouser Electronics > > > 1000 N Main St > > > Mansfield, TX 76063 > > > ------- > > > u2-users mailing list > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > http://www.u2ug.org/listinfo/u2-users > > ------- > > u2-users mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://www.u2ug.org/listinfo/u2-users > ------- > u2-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.u2ug.org/listinfo/u2-users ------- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.u2ug.org/listinfo/u2-users
