IP: BBC Censorship!

[Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>]

> Sender: salex () research bell-labs com
> Date: Fri, 03 Dec 1999 11:24:22 -0500
> From: Scott Alexander <salex () research bell-labs com>
> To: Dave Farber <farber () central cis upenn edu>
>
>
> I just tried this myself with exactly the same results described.  When you
> hit the link (e-mail to a friend), it brings up a pop-up window for the
> addresses, a subject and your message.  Once you've filled in your message
> and hit the send button, it brings up another pop-up which shows the
> (expurgated) message.
>
> Scott
>
> > Subject: BBC Censorship!
> > Date: Thu, 2 Dec 1999 19:30:01 PST
> > From: petermcw () geocities com (Peter McWilliams)
> > Newsgroups: rec.humor.funny
> > Followup-To: rec.humor.d
> >
> > The BBC web pages have links which allow you to send web pages to email
> > addresses and to include a text message.
> >
> > I just sent myself a page with the word Saturday in the body of the
> > message. It arrived with the word changed to Sa****ay!
> >
> > Hmmm. So I tried sending...
> >
> > > "I hope you still have your appetite for scraps of dickens when I bump
> > > into you in class in Scunthorpe, Essex on saturday"
> >
> > Yes! It replied...
> >
> > > "I hope you still have your appetite for s****s of dickens when I ***p
> > > into you in class in S****horpe, Es*** on sa****ay"
> >
> > Missed the ass, the tit and the dick though.
> >
> > --
> > Peter Mc*****ams
> >
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