FW: f**** buddy euphemism?

[Alice Faber]

Yeah, server-side filters, designed to block all the spam that misspells
crucial words just to avoid said filters.

Frank Abate wrote:
> Jeez, we have squeamish SYSTEMS?  I take it you mean servers and the like?
>
> My system gets squeamish sometimes, esp. after too much fried food.
>
> Frank Abate
>
> PS: "To the moon, Alice!"
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: American Dialect Society [mailto:ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of
> Alice Faber
> Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2007 10:42 AM
> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> Subject: Re: f**** buddy euphemism?
>
> Frank Abate wrote:
>> It is quite amusing to me that ADS posters seem to feel sheepish about
>> having:
>>
>> FUCK
>>
>> . . . in the Subject line.
>>
>> Why is this?  Do you taboo?
>>
>> The term is fuck buddy.  Can't we post it thus?
>>
>> Fac eu ('Be well'; Latin/Greek)
>>
>
> Even if we're not squeamish, some of our mail systems might be!
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