Christine Bell, co-owner of Mystery & Imagination Bookshop
sent out an email announcing the book signing I did there
yesterday for Traveling in Space. The email included one of
the loglines:
a 21st Century Gulliver's Travels with Homo sapiens as the
Lilliputians.
She found out a whole bunch of the e-mails never made it to
their intended destinations as she learned when she got this
bounce back from Microsoft:
Microsoft Forefront Security for Exchange Server has
matched a filter.
Filter name: "KEYWORD= sexual: homo"
State: Purged
Some times you have to wonder about the state of
intelligence in America today.
Oh, well, gave an added meaning to the sign Christine
attached to my book in her window display!
I could think of nothing that I would have guessed would make you happier than to have your book banned (as you could join the ranks of Twain, Nobokov, et. al.).
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure that spam filtering is the same, but I'm sure it made your day.
Have a good Turkey Feast.
I filtered some Spam once -- got a very strange hash!
ReplyDeleteBack at my old radio station, when a new corporate entity took over the business, we had to be placed on their server for the Internet, which included all the bells and whistles of their so-called protection.
ReplyDeleteIn doing some research I tried to go to Woody Allen's website but it wouldn't let me. It was deemed "adult content" because of "Woody."
It's a good thing my website includes my middle name!
Peter Anthony Holder
The Stuph File Program
It doesn't say Microsoft generated the message. Who is hosting her email? They're the ones setting the spam filter keywords.
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