[plug] Yesterday's PC Tiff

[Mike Holland]

On Fri, 29 Sep 2000, Mark Baker wrote:

> I was saddened to see this list degenerate into a political
> correctness debate yesterday over the use of some fairly harmless
> language.

Surely not? I just skimmed it, and assumed there was some subtlte humour
going on.  Wasnt there a discussion of butt plugs some months back, as
hardware items? (Or have I got the wrong list? :)
 
> Refer to http://dfn.org/Alerts/contest.htm to see the dangers of this.

They must be making at least half of that up! Did anybody verify it?

>>> NetNanny,  and when it detected the word "cum" in "cucumbers,"

Seriously, how can you possibly filter every page with 'cum' in a word? It
catches 'document' for a start. I'm sorry, but that page is bullshit.