Getting medireview on our asses

[avram]

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”.

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[webbob.livejournal.com]

I used to see s*l*nt-tr*st*r* go by when I was a Spam bagger at the corner ISP, but I was never on the list and never read any actual messages.

The return address turned up in e-mail logs and pending SMTP queues very frequently. I used to have a pretty good idea of which local fans, &c., were on which obscure and snarky lists. There sure are a bunch of them, worse than apas, they breed like flies. /D/a/r/k/ /a/s/ /t/h/e/ /A/c/e/ /o/f/ /S/p/a/d/e/s/././.