I’ve just read an article that initially made me laugh, but then made me stop and consider the implications of my choice of words and phrases in my blog post content and, in particular, my choice of permalink titles.  The article highlighted the problem of trigger happy spam filters blocking harmless websites and emails because of certain words or syllables being perceived, out of context, as obscenities.

“After 90 years, one of Canada’s oldest magazines, The Beaver, is changing its name.

Its publishers say it was only natural that a Canadian history journal should have been named in honour of the industrious dam-building creature which is the country’s national emblem.

But in recent times the magazine’s attempts to reach a new online audience kept falling foul of spam filters – particularly in schools – because beaver is also a slang term for female genitalia.”
(Source: BBC News website 29 March 2010)

Read more of this article here.