Fwd: Webfilter a little tight?

Zscoundrel zscoundrel at kc.rr.com
Wed May 16 07:35:18 CDT 2007


I don't want to come off sounding like the leader of the tin-foil hat 
squad, but doesn't it sound just a little suspicious that messages 
bagging on M$ are being squashed by some mysterious web filtering that 
nobody knows anything about??? 

Arthur Pemberton wrote:

>Anyone knows what's happening here? Does someone on the list use a web
>filter? or is some one monitoring this list?
>
>Cause I sure don't have any filters.
>
>---------- Forwarded message ----------
>From: RtX <riverty at gmail.com>
>Date: May 15, 2007 10:34 PM
>Subject: Re: Webfilter a little tight?
>To: Arthur Pemberton <pemboa at gmail.com>
>
>
>Well, for some reason when I reply to the list, I get this back.
>Again, please don't take this wrong. If it were me, I would want to
>know what's up. Maybe I'm reading it wrong??
>
>PureMessage has detected a content threat in a mail sent by you.
>
>Westrope policies forbid the use of profanity and obscene language.
>Please rephrase your message and send again.
>
>        Event:          Threat
>        Action:         Message quarantined
>        Message ID:     <
>c44362420705151852m1bc682c0s9bdc74482bd08aa8 at mail.gmail.com>
>        Message subject:        Re: Pantent infingments?
>        Recipient:      "Arthur Pemberton" <pemboa at gmail.com>
>
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>        Attachment information:
>                Event:  Threat
>                Action: No action
>                Filename:       Body text
>                Threat: Banned phrase
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>                Action: No action
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>                Threat: Banned phrase
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>On 5/15/07, Arthur Pemberton < pemboa at gmail.com > wrote:
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>>On 5/15/07, RtX < riverty at gmail.com > wrote:
>>    
>>
>>>Arthur,
>>>
>>>I just wanted to let you know that your mail filter at Westrope will not
>>>allow anything they consider profanity through the pipe and therefore, you
>>>might not be getting certain emails because of this.
>>>
>>> I have received a few returns from "Administrator at westrope.com" for content
>>>violations. Please don't get me wrong, I'm not complaining. I respect your
>>>right to not view certain material if this is your choice. On the other
>>>hand, if you did not choose this, or someone chose this for you, I thought
>>>you should know.
>>>      
>>>
>>I only use this address for mailing lists. It's a simple Gmail
>>account. I'm not aware of any mail filter at Westrope.
>>
>>
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>>Fedora Core 6 and proud
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