RE: Re: OT: 'NS003 ChineseWall Demon' '@txu.com>
- Subject: RE: [iris-talk] Re: OT: 'NS003 ChineseWall Demon' '@txu.com>
- From: S* S*
- Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2000 21:34:06 -0500
- Importance: Normal
From: "Steve Szabo" <stevesz@erols.com>
Mike,
I sent Cindy a private reply to her message. Just to let you know, the
program is MIMESweeper, which does many things, and ChineseWall is the name
of the job that was set up as part of MIMESweeper to root out those nasty
little abbreviations of scientific words that people may find to be
offensive. In fact, I've got to set up MIMESweeper for a client sometime in
the near future. Actually, it has been some time in the near future for the
past six months, and they will want it yesterday when they are finally ready
to go with it.
\\Steve//
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-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Lowe [m*@worldiris.com]
Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2000 8:44 AM
To: iris-talk@onelist.com
Subject: [iris-talk] Re: OT: 'NS003 ChineseWall Demon' '@txu.com>
From: Mike Lowe <mlowe@worldiris.com>
Cindy asks...
>What is this? Was it sent by something in iris-talk?
>Cindy
No, it was generated by a "Politically Correct" screening program.
One of the members of this mailing list is "PROTECTED" from receiving
any email that is deemed to be 'discriminatory, hateful, vulgar,
pornographic, sexually-explicit, or obscene'. What happened is that
this "Politically Correct" screening program ('FireWall' or
'ChineseWall' or 'PCorrectWall' or 'ChildSafeWall' or 'PornMasher' or
a host of other such 'blocking' programs) discovered the letters
'jap' in your message -- ran this against its internal list of
'discriminatory, hateful, vulgar, pornographic, sexually-explicit, or
obscene' terms and blocked the message. (and sent its smug PC
conclusion back to you)
Nearly all of these programs will block a message containing for
instance, 'breast cancer' because the word 'breast' sets off the
alarm. The creators of such trash are mostly brain dead because they
will not include algorithms in their programs that test to see if,
for instance, the term 'breast' is within 20 characters of the term
'cancer' and so on.
A NonPC Mike
>"'ChineseWall Job' reports: TXU automatically screens all e-mail for
>inappropriate subject matter (i.e. material that is discriminatory,
>hateful, vulgar, pornographic, sexually-explicit, or obscene). This
>e-mail contains information that is considered inappropriate for the
>business environment and has been logged and will be reviewed to
>determine final disposition. If you believe that your e-mail was
>stopped by mistake, please forward your mail to itsecurity@txu.com.
>
>' jap. ' found!
>
>Mail has been archived!
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