Keeping IT clean on the web

Posted on June 27, 2006 | 2 Comments

A blog post picked up in our haphazard trawl shows the hazard of trying to keep things clean using technology:

From spenceruk on LiveJournal

“I’ve just added my name to Cancer Research UK’s ‘Cancer 2020′ petition. It’s all about urging politicians across the UK to start planning today for the cancer challenges of tomorrow.

“Kewl thing to do – but slightly challenging since they are using some daft filter to stop people entering silly names on the site. Mine apparently contained some swear name which took me ages to figure out but I’ve come to the conclusion it must have been “ass” in my surname *sigh*. “

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2 Responses to Keeping IT clean on the web

  1. Paul Morriss | June 27, 2006 at 3:55 pm |

    Our corporate spam filter marked emails from a certain Sylvia Gracey as spam. The reason?
    sylVIA GRAcey :-)

  2. Spencer | January 25, 2007 at 9:13 pm |

    Thanks for picking up on my post – as someone who works for a charity *and* who works in IT, it’s nice to vent sometime.. How many times does the “control” of an IT department create problems for the rest of the organisation.