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This has got to be a joke (none / 0) (#4)
by Anonymous User on Tue Jul 11, 2006 at 12:07:32 PM PDT

Nobody can be that stupid, can they? That policy is absolutely assinine, right up there with the city council person who filed a suit because someone used a word meaning "parsimonious" (I won't post it here because I'm posting from work -- they might be stupid here too)in its proper context. That means people with the name "Grass", for example can't use their names as user-id's? How low in parsing do they go? There are some two or three letter combinations that are very common in words, but by themselves could be considered offensive. Sounds like AT&T needs to get beyond purely automatic rejections and apply some "human sense" filtering (if that exists at AT&T)



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