Early days of Firewall content scanning
This takes me back to circa 1995 and the early days of firewalls and content scanning for inappropriate words - We had a bank that cranked the very new firewall content scanning all the way up to 11. They were initially very pleased but soon reported that a significant portion of e-mails was not getting through. I looked at the firewall logs and soon discovered that the content scanning was looking for all traces of words that could be considered offensive, so for instance the word "digital" was triggering the rules as it detected the word "git" in digital. Hence a lot of e-mails getting blocked ....
Once rules were modified to be less aggressive the issue was resolved.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
