Canada's second oldest magazine changes name to avoid spam filters

http://www.nationalpost.com/news/canada/story.html?id=2430440

by dc2k08 • 17 years ago

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jgrahamc• 17 years ago

This is a real problem for me also. My last name Graham-Cumming causes problems.

For example, none of my family members were able to have Hotmail accounts with our real names (although years ago signed up for one with the name Ivana Watch-Teens-Give-Head to point out how stupid this is).

Eudora's built in profanity filter flags any email where people reply to me (because of the John Graham-Cumming wrote: lines).

Google used to serve pornographic ads against my name until I complained.

pmjordan• 17 years ago

I actually had to look up the non-animal meaning; is this a north american term? I'd never heard of it before.

nixy• 17 years ago

Have you not been consuming any American pop-culture for the last 15 years? :)

I recall an episode of the Late Show with Letterman, where Letterman would call up people living in a small town Eager Beaver Creek (or something like that) and ask them all sorts of questions.

pavlov• 17 years ago

Have you not been consuming any American pop-culture for the last 15 years? :)

It's worth noting that although American entertainment is consumed all over the world, the acting is often overdubbed in the local language.

Hence it's not possible for a Frenchman to learn colloquial English by watching "American Pie" -- presumably beaver references are translated to something more appropriate than "le castor" ;)

dazzawazza• 17 years ago

While this is a serious problem the article is indistinguishable from an Onion article!

What a shame and I think it shows how poor our Spam Filters are. Seeing the word beaver and assuming a sexual connotation seems like a very weak filter to me.

I wonder if taxidermists ever receive emails about stuffing beavers?

eru• 17 years ago

> I wonder if taxidermists ever receive emails about stuffing beavers?

Ah, the bless of ignorance. (My own ignorance of certain idioms of the English language.)

teeja• 17 years ago

It works. Search for "Santorum" on Bing.

Canada's second oldest magazine changes name to avoid spam filters

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