Does Yahoo suffer from backward thinking or just backward technology? Or both? On Feb 11, 2008 11:15 AM, Diane Whitehead <voltaire@islandnet.com> wrote: > PBS uses Latin names, and Yahoo blushes. Well, just North American > Yahoo. The Yahoos in Japan, Taiwan and the U.K. either didn't > notice, or are more sophisticated. > > A message from PBS contained the Latin name of that giant aroid. > Yahoo noticed that part of that name was a term for a body part. > Rather a high-class term, but nevertheless, Yahoo in North America > blocked its members from receiving PBS messages. When our PBS server > got all its messages to Yahoo bounced back, it set all those members > to No Mail. They can post, but they need to read list messages in > our archives. (This is a kindly way of dealing with the problem, as > another list I help with would just unsubscribe those members.) > > I now need to send this message personally to all those Yahoo > members, as they won't be receiving this from the list. > > So, everybody. Here's another word we mustn't use in our messages, > to add to the others I have warned against in the past. (in case you > have forgotten: the Latin name for 'black', as in Helleborus n-----, > and the Latin name for Pine, P---s) From now on, we need to call it > Amorphoph----s. > > <sigh> > > From a not-very Victorian Victorian, > > Diane Whitehead > Victoria, British Columbia, Canada > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/ >