Thursday, January 24, 2008

What a Porn Site

Martin , GO4BIG sounds like some of those e-mails that are flying around the Internet. Or so I was told one time when my e-mail was blocked by a client's server. I was a little offended that anyone would think that my organization would have anything to do with pornography. I guess I can see how they would come to that conclusion. When I look through my spam blocker I see the subject lines that have been changed with symbols to replace letters such as
have better s3x for sex,
Bigger and better results with v!agra for viagra,
Call today for a bigger p3n!s for penis. Okay you get the picture. Well now I sometimes have my valuable e-mails lumped in with the porno e-mails,the Girls,Girls,Girls requests and all the other pornography e-mails.

GO4BIG is an acronym for my unbelievably long corporate name Georgia Organization for Business Improvement and Growth (GO4BIG). It seemed logical to me when I started using it to share my business wisdom with small business owners. The old cliche says that sex sells. In this case my site has nothing to do with sex and I am being blocked from selling even though it has nothing to do with the sex trade.

What I find to be obscene is an electronic system that would block my information because it may be perceived inappropriate by an algorithm, but when people read the name there is no confusion whatsoever. I hope that this post will set the record straight. I am willing to bet that somehow this post will end up on some search lists as pornography because I did use the words sex, penis, girls and pornography in the same page. I hope that I am wrong, but we'll see.

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