Date   : Sun, 27 Sep 2009 01:20:27 +0200
From   : rick@... (Rick Murray)
Subject: OT bbc money,

Alex Taylor wrote:

 > My work email goes through a filtering system but it only seems to be
 > configured to block swear words

Incoming or only outgoing? You can't really control what other people 
say, and sometimes it may be useful to have a report on something even 
if you have to skip over nonsense like "this s*** is the s***!".


 > I'm sure there must be filtering systems out there that forward copies
 > of blocked messages to an admin.

That should be standard practice, if only to allow said admin to 
redirect things that could be classified as erroneously blocked. A 
system with the power to auto-read and discard messages needs to be 
absolutely certain it'll get it right.
Take Yahoo! for example. Most obvious spam is blocked. But stuff it 
isn't sure of gets sent to the Spam folder, or if you POP your mail, it 
will have "[bulk]" prefixed to the subject. Sometimes there is no 
discernible reason why something was flagged as spam, but at least the 
system didn't have enough confidence to auto-delete the message.


> The questions are designed to be extremely easy, they're there to
> exploit a legal technicality,

Ah, lottery vs quiz. I get it now.
I'd still like to know how many get it wrong. :-)


> "what colour is grass, green or red?"

Depends how far into War of The Worlds you get. Around the start of side 
A on LP 2, just before Nathaniel in the vicarage, you see the foliage 
turning red. Not exactly grass, but not exactly not.
[I had WAY too much free time as an ado]


> but interesting that it will have required you to actually watch the
> programme.

I noticed that during the credits of The Mentalist. Of course, it's a 
fairly reasonable assumption to make. :-)


Best wishes,

Rick.


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