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Peter Clinch
Guest
Ian Scott wrote:
> Can someone please tell me why a lot of
> people here tend to replace letters of the
> alphabet with asterisks in such words as
> "h*lm*ts" (helmets), "H*lfo***" (Halfords)
> and so on.
>
> By doing this you are stopping my kill
> filter from working. I have a kill-filter
> on the word "helmets" as I don't want to
> read about them, but the replacement of some
> letters by asterisks mean they get through
> anyway!
Then you should've seen the whole thread dedicated to answering that
very question, and of course going off on the usual mind-numbing
tangents as well.
It's a joke. Just as The Sun doesn't like to say Rude Words and adds in
asterisks over vowels, so it's done here to make a joke that "helmet" is
a bit of a rude word because it inspires so much boring text.
Pete.
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Peter Clinch Medical Physics IT Officer
Tel 44 1382 660111 ext. 33637 Univ. of Dundee, Ninewells Hospital
Fax 44 1382 640177 Dundee DD1 9SY Scotland UK
net [email protected] http://www.dundee.ac.uk/~pjclinch/
> Can someone please tell me why a lot of
> people here tend to replace letters of the
> alphabet with asterisks in such words as
> "h*lm*ts" (helmets), "H*lfo***" (Halfords)
> and so on.
>
> By doing this you are stopping my kill
> filter from working. I have a kill-filter
> on the word "helmets" as I don't want to
> read about them, but the replacement of some
> letters by asterisks mean they get through
> anyway!
Then you should've seen the whole thread dedicated to answering that
very question, and of course going off on the usual mind-numbing
tangents as well.
It's a joke. Just as The Sun doesn't like to say Rude Words and adds in
asterisks over vowels, so it's done here to make a joke that "helmet" is
a bit of a rude word because it inspires so much boring text.
Pete.
--
Peter Clinch Medical Physics IT Officer
Tel 44 1382 660111 ext. 33637 Univ. of Dundee, Ninewells Hospital
Fax 44 1382 640177 Dundee DD1 9SY Scotland UK
net [email protected] http://www.dundee.ac.uk/~pjclinch/