I wrote an email to a mate this afternoon. He works for a government organisation and they have one of those email filters in place. In the email, I mentioned that I was looking forward to the long weekend but that I just wished all the tourists would p@$$ off home. Mildly offensive language I know but not likely to offend him.
Needless to say, my email was knocked back by the Mail Nazi. I received a rejection note, copied to him. The note contained the details of the reason and even included the offending phrase verbatim :rolleyes: How ridiculous is that? What was the point of filtering it, only to send not one but two emails with the same phrase repeated.
To make matters worse, I was replying to his email in which he had wished me a Happy Easter. So he receives this note from his mail server telling him my note was rejected because it contained the phrase "p@$$ off". He writes back to me, forwarding the rejection note, saying what's all this about? Interestingly, the Mail Nazi lets him send an email with that phrase in it, so it's obviously OK for public servants to insult members of the public but not the other way around.
I reply to him with my original reply and the offending bit censored but forget to delete the attached part of his note that still contains the offending phrase as reported by the Mail Nazi. Of course, it's rejected again, so now he thinks I've told him to p@$$ off twice! In the end I had to ring and explain.
I tell ya, sometimes I wonder if it's all worth it in the end.
