SC - (OT) "Medireview" ???

[Huette von Ahrens]

Thank you!  I brought this up quite a few months ago
because it was happening to me alot.  You are the
first to tell me the real reason behind this. 

And if you think "medireview" looks weird, then you
should see what it does to "chevalric"="chreviewric".
Someone on another SCA list changed his e-mail address
to "cheval" and several of us couldn't get his new
address straight because it kept coming up at
"chreview".  Eventually, we realized what the word
actually was, but it took a while.

Huette 


- --- Kirrily Robert <skud at infotrope.net> wrote:
> In lists.sca.sca-cooks, you wrote:
> >Hi folks,
> >
> >Does anyone know why certain websites and mail
> servers
> >change the word "medieval" to "medireview" without
> any
> >warning?  Have I missed something?  Did they change
> >the spelling of the word, and not mail me the
> notice?
> 
> It's a misguided attempt to prevent viruses such as
> "Melissa" and
> "ILOVEYOU" which propagate via scripts embedded in
> email messages.
> 
> The term "eval" is used in some programming
> languages to mean "evaluate"
> and can be used to run arbitrary code.  Hence some
> mail hosting
> providers (such as Yahoo, I believe) do a
> search-and-replace to turn
> "eval" into "review".  This is fairly dumb to start
> with, but what's
> even dumber is that they seem to be doing it even
> when "eval" appears
> within another word such as "medieval".
> 
> This topic was covered by the RISKS digest the other
> week... Here's the
> URL:
> 
> http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/21.27.html#subj9
> 
> K.
> 
> -- 
> Kirrily 'Skud' Robert - skud at infotrope.net -
> http://infotrope.net/
> "Only two things are infinite, the universe and
> human stupidity,
> and I'm not sure about the former."  -- Albert
> Einstein
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