Yahoo! Mail Bans 'Allah' in User IDs

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

Gotta love the sweet smell of hypocrisy.

Via The Register.

[snip]

Yahoo! is banning the use of allah in email names - even if the letters are included within another name.

This was uncovered by Reg reader Ed Callahan whose mother Linda Callahan was trying to sign up for a Verizon email 
address. She could not get it to accept her surname.

Enquiries to Verizon revealed that a partnership with Yahoo! was to blame. Yahoo! will not accept any identies which 
include the letters "allah".

Nor will Yahoo! accept yahoo, osama or binladen. But it will accept god, messiah, jesus, jehova, buddah, satan and both 
priest and pedophile.

[snip]

More:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/02/20/yahoo_upsets_religious/

- ferg


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