http://www.kalpiknigam.com/blog Kalpik Nigam Sun, 06 Sep 2009 12:16:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 http://www.kalpiknigam.com/blog/2007/12/27/yahoo-censoring-status-messages/ http://www.kalpiknigam.com/blog/2007/12/27/yahoo-censoring-status-messages/#comments Thu, 27 Dec 2007 16:54:00 +0000 kalpik http://www.kalpiknigam.com/blog/2007/12/27/yahoo-censoring-status-messages/ I discovered this when i tried to set my status message to “Benazir Bhutto killed..” it just didn’t reflect. Then i tried Pidgin’s default away message “I’m not here right now” didn’t work.. But surprisingly “I’m not here right away” works.. Harsh confirmed the behavior. Seems as if yahoo is blocking some words such as “now” and “Bhutto” in various combinations in a sentence (“now” and “Bhutto” do work as status messages). At first i though it was a problem with pidgin. But then Ankur confirmed that these words were not working with even the windows yahoo messenger client! I really don’t know what yahoo is trying to achieve but its really irritating

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