[SPAM:##] "slut" and "uterus"

[Wilson Gray]

On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 2:36 PM, Arnold Zwicky <zwicky at stanford.edu> wrote:
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The battle has already been lost. Evidence my spam-filter's reaction
to the subject-line:

_Â [SPAM:##]_ "slut" and "uterus"

I.e., "I'm not sending this directly to the spam folder, but you'd
better watch out!"

"They" have gotten to the programmers!

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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