Re: What must one do to avoid Gmail's overachieving spam filtering?

[James Downs <egon () egon cc>]

On Sep 29, 2010, at 2:31 PM, Daniel Seagraves wrote:

> On Sep 29, 2010, at 4:08 PM, Ryan Hayes wrote:
>
> > Can you please not use the word "retarded" in a pejorative sense?
>
> The word "please" is probably not required, since using that word in  
> this manner is prosecutable hate speech in some jurisdictions.

Really? Where? Seems to me equating "retarded" used as an adjective to  
say, speech of the KKK seems... lame.

Also, "retarded" was applied to software, which to date, has not been  
entered as a protected group.

-j