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Re: Blocking certain terrorism/porn sites and DNS

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven J. Sobol)
Thu Aug 18 20:10:09 2005

Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 20:09:41 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Steven J. Sobol" <sjsobol@JustThe.net>
To: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@baylink.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <20050818095312.A335@cgi.jachomes.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu


On Thu, 18 Aug 2005, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:

> I believe you've mispelt "Al Q'aeda".
> 
> You see the problem.

*Especially* with respect to English translations of Arabic names. How
many different ways are there to spell Saddam Husein? For that matter, how 
many different spellings did the media outlets use for Moammar Quaddafi? 

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