Sorry for sucking so much -- I am a constant butt of jokes from LBO-talk due to this shockingly idiotic policy.
The strange thing is that the people who set this policy seem to be answerable to literally nobody else in the organisation -- are all IT departments so powerful.
The other strange thing is that the detector is set off by words like "j*oke" far more than by conventional obscenities and bad words.
my test phrase on these occasions is:
"Where's that fucking courier with my fucking heroin?"
bet that got through
cheers
dd
PS good luck with your radio station
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To: lbo-talk <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> cc: (bcc: DANIEL DAVIES) bcc: DANIEL DAVIES Subject: Message Blocked - Content Block Failure. (fwd)
This really is too funny -- some people (companies) have too much time on their hands. They come up with the silliest sh*t! Thanks to the london-messing-around-team, someone has been protected from the vagaries of the Internet.
You suck,
Very Sincerely,
Jedediah Noonan
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