Bless the heart of the British Psychological Society. I’ve just discovered that their email system has a profanity filter which protects their staff from receiving mail containing any vulgar words.
I found this out after emailing the editor of The Psychologist magazine about a research summary we may publish in the magazine. I’ve put the citation which tripped the profanity filter at the end of this post so, gentle reader, please be warned and avert your eyes if you are of a sensitive disposition:
Dong, C., Sanchez, L.E. & Price, R.A. (2004). Relationship of obesity to depression: A family-based study. International Journal of Obesity, 28, 790-795.
update: Jon, the editor, informs me that the offending word falls on their list in between ‘dildo’ and ‘dothead’. Thank goodness the BPS protects employees from this kind of filth…
update 2It has just occured to me that it is a little strange that BPS employees cannot receive emails with profanities in, but they can evidently send them
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That’s awesome. I’d love to see a list of all the words blocked by the filter, i’m sure it would be a great way to expand my profonocabulary, which has become somewhat limited of late.
an abvious ‘experiment’ beckons. Let’s all send the filthiest, most imaginitively sweary emails we can to the BPS, and then slowly tone them down until they get through…