markomalley Posted February 20, 2006 Share Posted February 20, 2006 From: The Register (UK) Yahoo! is banning the use of allah in email names - even if the letters are included within another name. This was uncovered by Reg reader Ed Callahan whose mother Linda Callahan was trying to sign up for a Verizon email address. She could not get it to accept her surname. Enquiries to Verizon revealed that a partnership with Yahoo! was to blame. Yahoo! will not accept any identies which include the letters "allah". Nor will Yahoo! accept yahoo, osama or binladen. But it will accept god, messiah, jesus, jehova, buddah, satan and both priest and pedophile. Ed Callahan told us: "On one level this is just silliness. But we have a war on terrorism and it's migrating to be a war on Muslims - this just shows the confusion there is between the two and how pervasive this is." The Callahans are still waiting to hear back from Yahoo! Yahoo! UK were unable to respond by press time. If anybody doubts this, try posting something about the Pe$*@!ta (that's Pes hitta) text on this site! Strange but true... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coolchef1248 @adelphia.net Posted February 21, 2006 Share Posted February 21, 2006 what absolute bs when will it stop!? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmiller Posted February 21, 2006 Share Posted February 21, 2006 Sure it's not allahoax? <_< Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markomalley Posted February 21, 2006 Author Share Posted February 21, 2006 Sure it's not allahoax? <_< In fact, I just tried adding two profiles to my Yahoo! ID. One was "Allah2005101010" the other one was "Callahan2003232323" -- both were rejected as containing I also tried entering "Pes hitta203423532" (remove the space) -- that one was rejected as well. So it sounds to me like their 'dirty word' filter is too tight. Also sounds like they've designated the word "allah" as a "dirty word" LOL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarthP2000 Posted February 21, 2006 Share Posted February 21, 2006 Also sounds like they've designated the word "allah" as a "dirty word" LOL Good one. I wouldn't be making any trips to the Middle East anytime soon, if I were you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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coolchef1248 @adelphia.net
what absolute bs
when will it stop!?
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dmiller
Sure it's not allahoax? <_<
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markomalley
In fact, I just tried adding two profiles to my Yahoo! ID.
One was "Allah2005101010" the other one was "Callahan2003232323" -- both were rejected as containing
I also tried entering "Pes hitta203423532" (remove the space) -- that one was rejected as well.
So it sounds to me like their 'dirty word' filter is too tight. Also sounds like they've designated the word "allah" as a "dirty word" LOL
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GarthP2000
Good one.
I wouldn't be making any trips to the Middle East anytime soon, if I were you.
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