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Title: Yahoo!Mail bans Allah and Dirty Harry handles
Post by: Clive on February 20, 2006, 16:40

The Register
By John Oates
Published Monday 20th February 2006 16:27 GMT

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.


http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/02/20/yahoo_upsets_religious/

Title: Yahoo!Mail bans Allah and Dirty Harry handles
Post by: Clive on February 22, 2006, 18:22

Yahoo! Unbans! Allah! (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/02/22/yahoo_unbans_allah/)

Title: Yahoo!Mail bans Allah and Dirty Harry handles
Post by: sam on February 22, 2006, 23:12

that was quick!

Title: Yahoo!Mail bans Allah and Dirty Harry handles
Post by: Sandra on February 22, 2006, 23:44

Allah works in mysterious ways  :wink:

Hes setting his worshippers against each other in good style today.

Does anyone know which is the lesser of the two evils, the sunnis or the shias  :?

Title: Yahoo!Mail bans Allah and Dirty Harry handles
Post by: Clive on February 23, 2006, 08:18

Quote from: "Sandra"

Does anyone know which is the lesser of the two evils, the sunnis or the shias  :?

The top 20 list of oxymorons is as follows:


20. Government Organization
19. Alone Together
18. Personal Computer
17. Silent Scream
16. Living Dead
15. Same Difference
14. Taped Live
13. Plastic Glasses
12. Tight Slacks
11. Peace Force
10. Pretty Ugly
9. Head Butt
8. Working Vacation
7. Tax Return
6. Virtual Reality
5. Dodge Ram
4. Work Party
3. Jumbo Shrimp
2. Healthy Tan
1. Microsoft Works

Title: Yahoo!Mail bans Allah and Dirty Harry handles
Post by: sam on February 23, 2006, 08:43

lol, the first and the last are definetly the best!!  :laugh: