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Posted on entry The Great War, ninety years on ::: November 11, 2008, 05:31 PM:
Project Gutenberg has many personal memoirs and history books (including some photo histories) available that were written soon after the War. Some of them are light reading, some stun you.
Posted on entry The honor of your assistance is requested in a small matter of language ::: August 21, 2008, 09:04 PM:
My brother worked at a place that had a similar list on their email filters. It banned words like rape, pink, & bush. It would reject the whole email, and not tell you which words specifically triggered the ban (I figured the above words by elimination). It had so many words in the list that at one point 10% of messages were being changed and sent multiple times, trying to figure out what had set off the filter this time.

Eventually one of his co-workers wrote a little script that would take a message, insert a . into each word somewhere (2 or more if the word was big enough) and then send it. It produced messages that looked really weird, but at least they got sent.

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