What is Scunthorpe Problem?
1.
Named for a town in England, a problem that occurs when internet filters block legitimate names because they contain certain combinations of letters which taken out of context can be considered obscene
Mr. Lipshitz was denied an e-mail address because of a Scunthorpe problem.
Scunthorpe and Lightwater are both towns in England that are sometimes blocked by internet search engines.
Lip
shit z
S
cunt horpe
Ligh
twat er
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