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This is very cute! But I wonder why the creator decided to special case of Scunthorpe and not more common terms like peacock

by arijun 6y ago

IanCal 6y ago
It's the name of the problem, name of the font and to me one of the first cases I heard about.
UncleSlacky 6y ago
Probably because the problem is named after it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem
- mahathu 6y ago
  "In February 2004 in Scotland, Craig Cockburn reported that he was unable to use his surname (pronounced "Coburn") with Hotmail. Separately he had problems with his workplace email because his job title, software specialist, contained the substring Cialis, an erectile dysfunction medication commonly included in spam e-mails." Now that's just bad luck. It could've happened to any of us!
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  - praptak 6y ago
    "It irks me how admins always ban my buddy, presumably because they think 88 in his nick is code for 'heil Hitler'. It's really unfair. Take care viagrapenis88!"
    - racl101 6y ago
      88 == SS?
      - mahathu 6y ago
        8 as in, the 8th letter of the alphabet.
unklefolk 6y ago
I live not too far from Scunthorpe and heard a story that Scunthorpe county council rolled out a new spam filter on the own email servers and no one in the council could sent any emails that day as they all got blocked. This was a few decades ago and I can’t find a source but there are references to the origin here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem
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- twic 6y ago
  Different, but Essex University still has the domain sx.ac.uk to be able to work around daft profanity filters.
Jedd 6y ago
My first experience with this kind of brute force solver for a problem that isn't really a problem was actually 'wristwatch', not 'scunthorpe'. This was in the very early 1990's, and on a BBS, not an Internet-based system. But I gather Scunthorpe was the first widely reported example.

This is very cute! But I wonder why the creator decided to special case of Scunthorpe and not more common terms like peacock

by arijun 6y ago

This is very cute! But I wonder why the creator decided to special case of Scunthorpe and not more common terms like peacock

IanCal 6y ago

It's the name of the problem, name of the font and to me one of the first cases I heard about.

UncleSlacky 6y ago

Probably because the problem is named after it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem

mahathu 6y ago
"In February 2004 in Scotland, Craig Cockburn reported that he was unable to use his surname (pronounced "Coburn") with Hotmail. Separately he had problems with his workplace email because his job title, software specialist, contained the substring Cialis, an erectile dysfunction medication commonly included in spam e-mails." Now that's just bad luck. It could've happened to any of us!
- deleted 6y ago
  [deleted]
- praptak 6y ago
  "It irks me how admins always ban my buddy, presumably because they think 88 in his nick is code for 'heil Hitler'. It's really unfair. Take care viagrapenis88!"
  - racl101 6y ago
    88 == SS?
    - mahathu 6y ago
      8 as in, the 8th letter of the alphabet.

unklefolk 6y ago

I live not too far from Scunthorpe and heard a story that Scunthorpe county council rolled out a new spam filter on the own email servers and no one in the council could sent any emails that day as they all got blocked. This was a few decades ago and I can’t find a source but there are references to the origin here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem

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twic 6y ago
Different, but Essex University still has the domain sx.ac.uk to be able to work around daft profanity filters.

Jedd 6y ago

My first experience with this kind of brute force solver for a problem that isn't really a problem was actually 'wristwatch', not 'scunthorpe'. This was in the very early 1990's, and on a BBS, not an Internet-based system. But I gather Scunthorpe was the first widely reported example.