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    the word 'hack' banned by yahoo! groups

    File this under "censorship makes you stupid".

    Mark Finnern of Future Salon attempts to write of Technorati's Dave Sifry:

    I loved his Etech Technorati Hacks session and I wrote about it in the Yahoo Group Description, but they would not let me save my text, because it contained a word that Yahoo perceives as not appropriate. The word is "Hack". Who would have thought?

    I wonder if they also ban 'h4ck', because no script-kiddie would spell it 'hack' anyhow.

    Once we had hired a VP of Software Engineering at my company, and I tried to educate him on the proper usage of the word 'hack' ...his understanding of the word more matched the definition of 'kludge'. He didn't really get it. We fired him pretty soon after that.

    Posted on 2004.02.28 at 07:33 PM in Geek |

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    Mark Finnern

    I tried and h4ck is not banned. See: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bafuture/

    Hack and hacking is, strangely enough hacker does not get blocked.

    Best, Mark.

    Posted by: Mark Finnern | 2004.02.29 at 01:25 AM

    fred ziffel

    Hack isn't banned...what are you talking about? It works just fine.

    Posted by: fred ziffel | 2004.03.15 at 07:53 PM

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