Medial reconstructed pr as artificial meat

[Rankin, Robert L]

I'm afraid it just did the same to Linda's posting as well, although she
only rated 6 stars (a little oxycontin, viagra or porn would get a few
more).  I seem to be the only one with this problem.  KU seems to have a
very aggressive filtering system.  If I continue to be the only one with
the problem, I'll just take it in stride and look over my alleged "spam"
carefully instead of deleting it wholesale.  Don't change a lot of
things just for my sake.

Bob

-----Original Message-----
From: Koontz John E [mailto:John.Koontz at colorado.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2004 10:33 AM
To: Siouan List
Subject: RE: Medial reconstructed pr as artificial meat


I thought I'd warn the list of a potential problem with Siouan list
posts. Bob Rankin indicates that the KU mailer's artificial meat filter
gave my post on medial pr in Proto-Siouan (and Chiwere) eight stars.

I suppose it might have been the asterisk in the subject line, which
looked to the filter like an attempt to break up a recognizable word, on
the order of somedrugwordpart1-asterisk-somedrugwordpart2.

That's dumb of the filter.  The only reasonable way to deal with the
interruption strategy for sneaking in artificial meat is to compress all
the non-letters out of the text and look for artificial meat-matching
matching strings in the compressed text. However, I think all the
filters are dumb this way.  They weren't devised by people used to
processing Siouan data ...

Another possible problem might be having over a certain percentage of
lines with gibberish like Siouan words written in NetSiouan (or anything
else).

Anyway, you may wish to examine your artificial meat letters carefully.