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mjoseph
06-18-2008, 06:47 PM
is this exclusivley an american thing?

my relative in the states is a bank manager and half the emails i send her get "quarantined" for profanity and i don't even fargan swear‏

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Stef
06-18-2008, 07:06 PM
It appears that all reply e-mails women send me that contain the word "yes" are automatically deleted. http://deephousepage.com/smilies/confused.gif
mjoseph
06-18-2008, 07:52 PM
It appears that all reply e-mails women send me that contain the word "yes" are automatically deleted. http://deephousepage.com/smilies/confused.gif

weird huh? does it say "blocked by ironport"?
chldfknungrnd764
06-18-2008, 07:54 PM
I have AOL with spam blocker.
DaveR
06-18-2008, 08:12 PM
oops - didn't see this was about "office email"
Stef
06-18-2008, 08:44 PM
weird huh?

Actually, I wish I could blame the "no yeses" situation on e-mail filters. The real deal is that it doesn't occur to them to type the word yes - especially in non-work-related e-mails. http://deephousepage.com/smilies/cry.gif
JimmyEllis
06-18-2008, 11:01 PM
it's not just US. It generally happens with most business' with an IT depo.
LEONARD REMIX RROY
06-19-2008, 06:49 AM
send mail on myspace.

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geo
06-19-2008, 07:49 AM
it's not just US. It generally happens with most business' with an IT depo.

that are located in a country governed by a Conservative majority?
I'm in Canada- no e-mail quarantining at my work. But when I was working for a management consultancy firm based in the States every other word seemed to trigger a "SPAM" warning.
JimmyEllis
06-19-2008, 07:53 AM
that are located in a country governed by a Conservative majority?
I'm in Canada- no e-mail quarantining at my work. But when I was working for a management consultancy firm based in the States every other word seemed to trigger a "SPAM" warning.

Maybe it's more to do with how conservative the company is,
rather than country?
mjoseph
06-19-2008, 07:58 AM
that are located in a country governed by a Conservative majority?
I'm in Canada- no e-mail quarantining at my work. But when I was working for a management consultancy firm based in the States every other word seemed to trigger a "SPAM" warning.

ditto. is this a patriot act thing, or are these corporations just over zealous?
SuzanneT
06-19-2008, 08:11 AM
is this exclusivley an american thing?

my relative in the states is a bank manager and half the emails i send her get "quarantined" for profanity and i don't even fargan swear‏

geez piss tests and compromised emails http://elouai.com/images/yahoo/42.gif
Stop using the words penis and/or viagra in your emails :tongueout:
geo
06-19-2008, 08:11 AM
Maybe it's more to do with how conservative the company is,
rather than country?

Not sure that is true. I work, as do most of my friends, for blue chip multi-national companies based in Toronto (many of which are actually US companies). None of us have anything like the level of over zealous e-mail policing that people working in the US do (often for the same company).

We also don't drug test here- not that that affects me in one way or another.
panklady
06-19-2008, 08:41 AM
My Quar is off the chain...catches everything including what it has no business catching (ie msgs from our execs). I hate it YET love it.
KBig
06-19-2008, 09:49 AM
As an Email Admin/Engr. quarentining based on content is quite normal. Excessively scruntinizing in the banking and marketing industries.

Its always good to have an external email accnt.


much of the quarentining happens at a high SMPT level and blacklisting and whitelisting privs can be given to the users with programs like Postini


just an fyi from your friendly neighborhood admin cow.:grinyes: