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[FYI] UK: MPs barred from reading their own emails
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/29175.html
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MPs barred from reading their own emails
By Drew Cullen
Posted: 04/02/2003 at 13:32 GMT
There's crass and there's unbelievable stupidity, a category into
which tumbles the person who installed a new email filtering package
at the House of Commons.
Designed to stop spam, the app has gone censorware- crazy, with MPs
complaining that the system is 'stifling political debate'.
Paul Tyler, Lib Dem MP, told the BBC that the email filter is "now
blocking parts of the Sexual Offences Bill being sent to
parliamentary e-mail addresses. It also blocked a Liberal Democrat
consultation paper on Censorship."
Doh!
As Mr. Tyler says: ""Blocking filth is one thing, gagging political
debate is another. Censoring MPs discussions with their staff,
colleagues and constituents is totally unacceptable."
We guess, the BOFHs at the Houses of Parliament are tweaking the
filters as we write. ®
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