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slide to the left Donating Member (602 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-23-06 03:44 PM
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Whats in a name (or e-mail address)?
FOUNTAIN CITY, Wis. — What’s in a name? A whole lot, if you’re Ed Callahan of Fountain City.

Callahan recently tried to sign up for an e-mail account with Yahoo after his mother had trouble signing up for one. But they couldn’t get an account using their last names. At first, Callahan suspected it was because there was another Ed Callahan or another Linda Callahan got the name first. So he tried several combinations of letters and numbers around the name.

None worked.

Callahan discovered it was because his last name contained the word “Allah,” the Arabic word for God.


http://www.lacrossetribune.com/articles/2006/02/23/news/04yahoo.txt
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Roland99 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-23-06 03:46 PM
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1. Saw that the other day. Ridiculous.
Wonder if I can sign up with FuckBush@yahoo.com?


;)
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YOY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-23-06 03:56 PM
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2. the word "Fuck" will not work
It's on thein no go list.
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Roland99 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-23-06 04:58 PM
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4. Well, fuck
:D


I could use fvck or fuk or phuk or...


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Wilms Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-23-06 04:37 PM
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3. Oh my Allah! That's sick.

What happens if the last name is Goddard?
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MadMaddie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-23-06 05:07 PM
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5. This is ridiculous...
isn't Callahan an irish name....

This was just a stupid, stupid policy. It makes you wonder who sat arround to think of that?
So instead of writing a program for them to review addresses that could be used inappropriately they banned any words that may have words like allah....this is why US companies are not doing so well in the scheme of things...


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