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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 :(

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  1. Glad I don't live there by Achmed+Swaribabu · · Score: 0, Troll

    Why should they use an insecure system like e-mail for sending data? I wait for the day when we find out how much data terrorists get on the sly from simple little plain text emails.

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    --Achmed

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  2. Re:true story by NerdSlayer · · Score: 0, Troll

    so i can say, with certainty, that my personal life has been greatly and adversely affected by spam.

    What are you, a 3rd grader passing notes? Use the damn phone already. Or maybe she lives in "Cananda".