Gay's too gay for phone giant

[Olivia]

:lol:

A WOMAN'S email to the help desk of Telecom New Zealand was rejected by a computer system because her name was Gay and "inappropriate for business-like communication".

Gay Hamilton, from the northern South Island town of Nelson, said while she was actually gay, she was concerned that the country's biggest public company was spending its time and resources on trifling issues, the Herald on Sunday reported.

"If they do have to put content filters on, then maybe they should ensure that it only gets genuinely abusive words," she said.

Telecom's automated reply to her email said the message "was identified by our content filtering processes as containing language that may be considered inappropriate for business-like communication". It confirmed that the offending word was "gay".

Telecom spokesman Lenska Papich said the response was triggered by the company's internal email monitoring system, which prevented "misuse of email technologies in the workplace and act as a deterrent to harassment".

"Our systems internally detect a number of words, including both the words gay and heterosexual, that could be deemed as inappropriate for use at work," she said.

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,21644834-13762,00.html

[Disgustipated]

Thats really gay.

[Olivia]

Bloody kiwi's are always backwards.

[angela]

Her name is Gay, and she is actually gay?  I guess that cuts out a lot of the guesswork.  And fends off the mens.

Man: Hey there.  I'm Bob.  I noticed you from the bar...  What's your name?
Gay: GAY!
Man: Alright, have a nice evening.

[[Pandora]]

i bought chocolate from a woman named Gay before.  :roll:

[xoxo_samantha_xoxo]

I kinda like the name gay. Does that make me gay?

[only1lf]

I guess that name was a self fulfilling prophecy. Kinda like Bertha.

[Rebirth of Josh]

That was so gay.  On the upside, at least her name isn't Homo

[Smallville78]

in school years ago one girls last name was gay