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[ Note from El Oscuro - this is really just a glitch caused by less-than-attentive programming on Yahoo!'s end and not, as some have suggested, a massive left-wing conspiracy. This does, however, expose a glaring deficiency in the language skills of many Americans: the bug also changes "medieval" to "medireview" - do a Google search for "medireview" and you will find hundreds of documents, essays, articles and so on from students and supposedly serious researchers who actually use "medireview" as a synonym for "medieval!" This, of course, only happens in America where "medieval" is the normal spelling of that word; those in the rest of the English-speaking world who properly spell it "mediaeval" (with the ae typed as a ligature if possible) are immune. Don't believe me? Visit merriamwebster.com or try looking up "medireview" in any dictionary! Question the competence of any mediaeval historian who actually uses the word "medireview" - he might as well pretend to be an expert on surfing the Weeb! ] Yahoo's Seven Word Fragments You Can't Say In HTML Email ======================================================== eval => review mocha => espresso expression => statement javascript => java-script jscript => j-script vbscript => vb-script livescript => live-script Yahoo's hack doesn't respect word boundaries: so evaluate would become reviewuate, retrieval becomes retrireview. Note that plain text email is left untouched - only HTML mail gets this treatment. There are also a few tags that are verboten: link => xlink script => cursive object => xobject embed => xembed body => xbody iframe => xframe layer => xlayer applet => xapplet meta => xmeta form => xform See <URL:http://www.ntk.net/2002/07/12/> for more details.