Lexmark thinks word "crap" is erotic

Every week we've dutifully sent out our story list to those who requested it but this time we've been slapped in the tush (is that face? Ed?) by both Lexmark and Microsoft.

Lexmark returned the email to us with the following very priggish message:

'English Erotic Keywords (Internet)' reports: You sent an inappropriate e-mail message. Lexmark regrets that the E-Mail you sent will not be delivered. The Lexmark internal E-Mail network is for business purposes only. Thank you for your understanding. 'crap ' found!

This relates to the the story headlined: Microsoft admits previous OSes crap.

And we're told by another reader that Outlook 2000 filed the same email as junk, that is crap, not because of the inflammatory headline above, but because the words "Oliver Roll in tender embrace with Madge" were used in another story about the XP launch here.

And stone the crows and strike me pink, but then someone points us to this Australian story entitled Bastards get the a*** at Microsoft which turns the Great Vole of Software into a 20s style censorious tumbril.

We wonder if Lexmark printers censor the word "crap" when they print it out?

Just for the Thought Control merchants at the troubled printer firm, the OED gives six meanings for the word "crap", only the last of which relates to defecation.

And if Lexmark Thought Police think "crap" is an erotic word we are very worried indeed about their grasp on the sexual realities of life... . µ