Salient

Nothing much has changed since National took the reigns of power. John Key may have stopped Section 92A for the meantime, but I can’t send emails with light pepperings of colourful language.

———- Forwarded message ———-
From:
Date: 2009/2/27
Subject: Profanity detected in E-Mail Message
To:
Cc: editor@salient.org.nz

You have used a word in your message that is unacceptable in an e-mail message!

Your message will therefore not be delivered!

Please reword your e-mail and resend.

The details of the message are:

The subject was:
Congratulations

The intended recipient was/were:
xxxxxx.xxxx@mfe.govt.nz

Who are the MFE to tell me what words are and are not acceptable in emails? Seriously. This place is getting more like Oceania everyday. I am sending an email to a friend. I can understand them filtering emails going out of MFE accounts, but incoming messages is creepy. Mailman reading your mail and censoring it anyone?

Also who uses the term “e-mail messages”. Don’t need the hyphen or the word messages guys. Get up with modern parlance!

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