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Occasionally I get an email from someone trying to use the classifieds system saying that the links I've sent them to edit their advert doesn't work.
I had an example this week.
The problem is that by the time that particular user has received the email from us, the URL has changed from www.pistonheads.com/sales/edit... to www.piston[b]VOID[/b]s.com/sales/edit...
It's obviously only some email clients but it's a bit weird!
Anyone seen anything like this before?
I had an example this week.
The problem is that by the time that particular user has received the email from us, the URL has changed from www.pistonheads.com/sales/edit... to www.piston[b]VOID[/b]s.com/sales/edit...
It's obviously only some email clients but it's a bit weird!
Anyone seen anything like this before?
zumbruk said:
Not so much spam, as an overly eager porn filter.
That was my first guess, but I can't believe it would replace the word 'head', unless it thought the source of the email was already suspicious? The only other things that jump to mind is could it be something to do with character encoding or maybe HTML formatting (it's treating the word 'head' as a HTML tag)? They're both long shots though, sorry.
Having said the above, I sent an email to an American friend's corporate email account and it got bounced because it had the word 'ass' in it, which, unless I'm very much mistaken, is a perfectly legitimate use of the English language?
roadsweeper said:
Not so much spam, as an overly eager porn filter.
That was my first guess, but I can't believe it would replace the word 'head', unless it thought the source of the email was already suspicious?
Believe me, I've sat in meetings where HR departments wanted to filter out just about anything that could cause offence to anyone, anywhere. And some of the default dictionaries that come with American products are a wonder to behold.
It *is* quite amusing legitimately passing round lists of swear words in meetings, though....
A pal of mine moved to work in the states a few years ago. eamials bounced back and fore for a year os so and then not responses for a while. "Odd" I thought. Must be on holiday or busy. But one mail really did expect an answer, so I mailed his family home account and asked if all was well.
He checked with his corporate people and their new filter system. The implementation trapped suspect mails, diverted then to IT for assessment who then forwarded any that were not spam.
Apparently it took exception to me using 'chat' as in - 'we need to chat about that.' Seemed it was some sort of coded message in the US context.
But the real failure was not the divert to T but the human failure that meant they forgot (due to so many filtered messages) to pass it through!
He checked with his corporate people and their new filter system. The implementation trapped suspect mails, diverted then to IT for assessment who then forwarded any that were not spam.
Apparently it took exception to me using 'chat' as in - 'we need to chat about that.' Seemed it was some sort of coded message in the US context.
But the real failure was not the divert to T but the human failure that meant they forgot (due to so many filtered messages) to pass it through!
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