No more beaver on the internet in Canada
Oh, get your mind out of the gutter:
How spam filters dictated Canadian magazine’s fate
After 90 years, one of Canada’s oldest magazines, The Beaver, is changing its name.
Its publishers say it was only natural that a Canadian history journal should have been named in honour of the industrious dam-building creature which is the country’s national emblem.
But in recent times the magazine’s attempts to reach a new online audience kept falling foul of spam filters – particularly in schools – because beaver is also a slang term for female genitalia.
The publishers of the magazine – now to be known as Canada’s History – also noticed that most of the 30,000 or so visitors to their website per month stayed for less than 10 seconds. </em>
Picture that scenario, how about?
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