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Aggressive Email Filtering Blocks Political Debate

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the been-there-done-that dept.

Stephen writes "Many of us have spam blockers operating on our mail. But according to this BBC article, when British members of parliament starting having their emails filtered last month, it stopped them talking about genuine political business such as the Sexual Offences Bill, and prevented them receiving some constituents' emails." This problem has bit me on the bum a few times too. About 1 message in every 250 spam is a false hit. Course thats about once a day :(

2 of 392 comments (clear)

  1. well by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    maybe pieceofshittaco should stop being a whiney
    ass like the rest of the freaking world and dump
    the spam filters .. it Ain't That Hard to just
    click 'delete' or hit 'd' or whatever your mailer
    uses (being taco, i'm sure its some gui-fied
    foulness .. probably with a theme .. probably
    anime girls .. probably naked .. probably with
    taco sauce)

    look people .. just deal with it

    fuckheads

  2. Re:No, That's a real problem with a democracy by entrigant · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I'm doing a study to try and determine why some people appear to be born without a sense of humor. Care to participate? You seem like a perfect candidate.