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Old 06-13-2006, 10:43 AM   #30
BigV
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Originally Posted by Cyclefrance
Sexy Building

A few UK local authority planning departments have been getting into trouble. When planning applications for extensions and changes to domestic properties are rejected the applicants have right of appeal. Some of those who have appealed via email have seen their messages ignored, so when the appeal deadline has passed they have lost their chance to do anything about the council's decision.

That is until it was discovered that the council server was filtering out their emails. Seems it was all down to the word 'erection' which commonly appears in building matters but thought to be a good indicator of something unsavoury in another context and therefore being present in the councils' list of filter mechanism words....
I had to detune the spam filters on our email servers once for trapping messages with the word "toilet" in the same circumstance, building construction.
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