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On 12/02/2021 12:15, Bob Eager wrote:
On Fri, 12 Feb 2021 12:08:30 +0000, charles wrote:

In article ,
Martin Brown wrote:
On 12/02/2021 11:21, Jethro_uk wrote:
On Fri, 12 Feb 2021 10:29:49 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

On 12/02/2021 08:50, Tim Lamb wrote:
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A brief education on email transport.

Start with it being inherently unreliable


It is remarkably reliable considering.


The only time I have had serious bother was way back when one over
zealous AV/netnanny product took exception to certain crude Anglosaxon
4 letter words appearing in MIME encoded binary content. The transition
threshold for unreliable transmission was about 500k (26^4).


Although you could sometimes just be unlucky with a shorter one.


Virgin didn't like 'Sussex'


Facebook have actually been banning people (for three days, I think) and
giving group admins hassle for talking about the Devils Dyke beauty spot
near Brighton. And Plymouth Hoe.




S****horpe folks regularly had problems, and that
Austrian village lost so many signs they changed their name.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S****horpe_problem

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fugging,_Upper_Austria