Yahoo and Latin
Roy Sachs (Thu, 14 Feb 2008 04:30:56 PST)

I think we need some kind of help with the pbs heading. A few days ago I sent a message with Latin bon mots in the text, not title, and not one of them had pinus or nigra as part of the saying; the message it never made it into my spam box...indeed relatively few pbs messages are getting through even though I've written to them.

Do we have some kind of cookie attached to pbs messages? if so, that could cause/be a problem with my browser

----- Original Message ----
From: Hannon <othonna@gmail.com>
To: Pacific Bulb Society <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008 1:32:43 PM
Subject: Re: [pbs] Yahoo and Latin

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

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