Re: watch that language

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It is amusing to see our messages being rejected by super-sensitive filters.

The latest is Sean's description of someone pinning back the long
leaves of an agave using the spine at the end.  I think I have found
the offending word that stopped his message from being received by
some members in the U.K.  I have to be careful of my language here.
Perhaps if I write it with a big space and a ? between, it will be
analysed as two innocent words.   "back       ?         side".  If
this message also is rejected, I will know that I didn't fool the
filter.

I don't always manage to figure out why a message has been rejected
because of its content. One of the other offensive phrases that I do
remember being rejected is the Latin term for a black pine.  I'll use
the Victorian method of dealing with nasty words:   P___  n___

So folks, besides being knowledgeable about plants, we also need to
know and avoid slang terms from various English-speaking countries.

Diane Whitehead