Armorek Forum - Offensive or Illegal?

[Stephen White]

I'm siitting in the BA lounge in Vancouver airport, thinking I'd check the forum using the BA terminals. Oh no, not according to the "World's Favourite Airline". The Armortek Forum is classified as either "Illegal or Offensive". I shall be writing to that nice Mr Walsh to point out something else for him to fix once he's sorted out the groundcrew. In fairness (and I don't feel that charitable just now), there is a dodgy American arms company of a similar name.......

And no, don't ask how I'm writing this..... BA aren't that clever.

Regards

Stephen

[Christoffer Ahlfors]

Companies often purchase filter services for their web use - both for incoming and outgoing requests. Those filters aren't entirely exact, but can be customized when needed. The fact that Armortek gets caught in such filters is not a deliberate act on behalf of the web service provider, but rather a result of their not knowing and thus not explicitly granting permission. I tried Armortek at work and it was classified as "weapons". If I had business need to access the site, I could just call support, but I could hardly make such a claim...

Cheers,
/Chris

[Adrian Harris]

> there is a dodgy American arms company of a similar name.......

And a producer of golf clubs, if my eBay searches are anything to go by.

As someone who used to help run the web filters "protecting" students, I'm well aware of the vagaries of automatic filters. Volkswagen were banned because the company was started by Nazis. Some art galleries were banned because there was too much pink in their pictures. etc. etc.

> And no, don't ask how I'm writing this..... BA aren't that clever.



Adrian.