[Clive forwarded to RISKS an long item from the Computer underground Digest, Thu Apr 11, 1996, Volume 8 : Issue 29, ISSN 1004-042X, from Doug Blackie <STEELBEAT@aol.com> that relates an experience Doug had in trying to register with AOL. He entered his name "Blackie" and his home town "Scunthorpe", and found that AOL's (indecency-filtering) registration program would not accept that combination. After various discussions with the AOL folks in Dublin, he discovered that he could register properly if he entered the town as "Sconthorpe". As a result of this curious situation, AOL has announced that the name of the town will henceforth be known as "Sconthorpe". The entire saga is documented in the Scunthorpe Evening Telegraph (final edition) of Tuesday, 9 Apr 1996, issue number 30111, printed and published by Grimsby and Scunthorpe Newspapers Ltd., Telegraph House, Doncaster Road, Scunthorpe, DN15 7RE, UK. The article was provided on-line by David G. Bell <dbell@zhochaka.demon.co.uk>, and was included as a part of Doug Blackie's message. PGN Abstracting.] ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Apr 1996 11:10:22 -0700