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  • Subject: This is ridiculous
  • From: Michelle Steiner <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 13:06:46 -0700

I just received the following email.

**************** eManager Notification *****************

The following message was blocked because it contains sensitive content.

Source mailbox: email@hidden
Destination mailbox(es): email@hidden
Rule/Policy: Dirty Words
Action: Quarantine to e:\Program
Files\Trend\SMCF\Quarantine\2004-10-12\15-50 -05.38294\DFImessagebody416c356d
9596.tmp


The Orvis Email server has detected language content which has been
previously associated with a computer virus. Contact the Orvis Help Desk at
540-983-4261 for assistance, and / or remove any potential offensive
language and re-send.

Notice that it doesn't say which message was blocked. Here are the two messages I sent to this list today:


On Oct 12, 2004, at 11:10 AM, Johnny AppleScript wrote:

Is there a better way to do this?

Smart-ass answer for the question exactly as written:

set theList to {"A", "B", "C", "D"}
set theChoice to (choose from list theList) as string
set a to (ASCII number of theChoice) - 64

-- Michelle

--
Discordians don't pray: it is far too dangerous.

and

On Oct 12, 2004, at 4:41 AM, Emmanuel wrote:

set the_diameter to 4
set the_circumference to pi ("times" as operator) the_diameter
  --  12.566370614359

And what OSAX is necessary for that to work? It doesn't work with vanilla Applescript.


-- Michelle

--
"My country, right or wrong: if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right."
Senator Carl Sch*rz of Missouri, 1899

What in either of those two messages is offensive or even potentially offensive? The only thing I can think of that comes even close is "Sch*rz"; that's the reason I replaced the "u" with an asterisk.


-- Michelle

--
"The optimist proclaims that this is the best of all possible worlds ;
and the pessimist fears this is true."  --James Branch Cabell

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