David Lock

The good lady tried to send an e-mail to a pal with a hotmail.co.uk address last night. Just a girly keeping-up-to-date message with no attachments.

It got rejected by hotmail and returned.

I tried again a couple of times and same thing.

The return message included the words "Reasons for rejection may be related to content with spam-like characteristics or IP/domain reputation problems."

So I looked through the original message and my wife had mentioned that our daughter had just got a temporary job with a drug company. I deleted these 2 words and the message went through.

This seems very odd to me I can see Viagra, ***** etc being rejected but "drug"???

Any thoughts or anyone had similar? d

c-o-l-e

It's quite a regular thing these days, lots of words are black listed and filtered.
You should try sending an email through Virgin Media with the words "bomb" and "threat" in and see how long it takes to turn up the other end.

David Lock

OK thanks. I suppose it's a good thing in a way but the legitimate word "drug" rather surprised me but I can see why now.

Now I know why my e-mail joke about blowing up No 10 kept coming back to me

(waiting for knock on door) dl