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Canada's second oldest magazine changes name to avoid spam filters

23 pointsby dc2k08over 15 years ago

4 comments

jgrahamcover 15 years ago
This is a real problem for me also. My last name Graham-Cumming causes problems.<p>For example, none of my family members were able to have Hotmail accounts with our real names (although years ago signed up for one with the name Ivana Watch-Teens-Give-Head to point out how stupid this is).<p>Eudora's built in profanity filter flags any email where people reply to me (because of the John Graham-Cumming wrote: lines).<p>Google used to serve pornographic ads against my name until I complained.
dazzawazzaover 15 years ago
While this is a serious problem the article is indistinguishable from an Onion article!<p>What a shame and I think it shows how poor our Spam Filters are. Seeing the word beaver and assuming a sexual connotation seems like a very weak filter to me.<p>I wonder if taxidermists ever receive emails about stuffing beavers?
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pmjordanover 15 years ago
I actually had to look up the non-animal meaning; is this a north american term? I'd never heard of it before.
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teejaover 15 years ago
It works. Search for "Santorum" on Bing.