Yahoo! unbans Allah!

[The Straight Story]

Yahoo! unbans Allah!
Thank god for that!
By John Oates
Published Wednesday 22nd February 2006 15:47 GMT
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Yahoo! has reversed its decision to stop people registering Yahoo! IDs which include the letters "allah".

The Reg was contacted yesterday by a reader - Ed Callahan - who was having trouble registering his mum - Linda Callahan - for a Verizon email address - provided through a Yahoo! portal.

But Yahoo! got in touch with us this morning to say it is now accepting Yahoo! identities which contain the letters "allah". The Callahans will be overjoyed.

Yahoo! said in a statement: "We continuously evaluate abuse patterns in registration usernames to help prevent spam, fraud and other inappropriate behavior. A small number of people registered for IDs using specific terms with the sole purpose of promoting hate, and then used those IDs to post content that was harmful or threatening to others, thus violating Yahoo!'s Terms of Service.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/02/22/yahoo_unbans_allah/

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. perhaps better words to ban would be

kill, death, and racial epitaphs.