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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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