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Wednesday, May 31, 2006

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i think we have ALL (or at least most of us have) been through something stupid like this!

Council computer system has erection problem
By Sarah Womack, Social Affairs Correspondent(Filed: 31/05/2006)
In the often dull language of planning applications, the word "erection" does not exactly have Benny Hill connotations.
But that is not the way Rochdale borough council's computer system saw it and two e-mails from Ray Kennedy, a lawyer, of Middleton, near Manchester, opposing his neighbour's house extension - and containing the word "erection" - were banned as being sexually offensive.
When the lawyer sent a third e-mail, a planning officer told him that his neighbour's proposals had been given the go-ahead.
Mr Kennedy is considering complaining to the local government ombudsman over the blunder.
A spokesman for the council said: "The software that protects the council's e-mail system from spam and other offensive material is not designed by the council and we do not control which words are blocked...........

2 comments:

Lily said...

HA! Thats great, Rose!

Unknown said...

long ago i read one similar to this. the filter didn't let the word breast in. of course it was something like a meat distributor who dealt with chickens as well.

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