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!