Getting medireview on our asses

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According to the latest NTK, Yahoo has been doing automatic text substitution in the email sent to its users, in a ham-fisted attempt to defeat scripting attacks; resulting in a list of seven words you can’t say in email. The substitution doesn’t respect word bounderies, so even if you use a word, like “medieval”, containing a forbidden fragment (the JavaScript command “eval” in this case) Yahoo will transmogrify it into “medireview”. Google apparently now shows over a thousand instances of “medireview” being used as a synonym for “medieval”.