Yahoo fun

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sat Jul 13 12:20:42 PDT 2002


Michael Pollak wrote:


>Mention "mocha" in an HTML mail to a friend with a
> @yahoo.com account, and your choice in coffee will be
> silently switched to "espresso".

I sent d_henwood at yahoo.com the pointed-to file:


>Yahoo's Seven Word Fragments You Can't Say In Email
>===================================================
>
>eval => review
>mocha => espresso
>expression => statement
>javascript => java-script
>jscript => j-script
>vbscript => vb-script
>livescript => live-script
>
>Yahoo's hack doesn't respect word boundaries: so evaluate would become
>reviewuate, retrieval becomes retrireview.
>
>There are also a few tags that are verboten:
>
>link => xlink
>script => cursive
>object => xobject
>embed => xembed
>body => xbody
>iframe => xframe
>layer => xlayer
>applet => xapplet
>meta => xmeta
>form => xform
>
>See <URL:http://www.ntk.net/2002/07/11/> for more details.

and got exactly that. So did Yahoo fix it?

Doug



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