Yahoo — in a fit of politically correct pique, one assumes — is banning the name “Allah” from its Yahoo IDs.
That includes those letters inside of another name, as someone named Callahan discovered.
Nor will Yahoo! accept yahoo, osama or binladen. But it will accept god, messiah, jesus, jehova, buddah, satan and both priest and pedophile.
Spiffy.
Someone has prevoiusly examined this in more detail. Ah, the joys of trying to come up with a banned words list that doesn’t have silly exceptions (and silly inclusions).
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Residents of the English steelmaking town of Scunthorpe have suffered similar problems in the past, with AOL
They can’t ban Callahan’s! Waaaaaah!