When my girlfriend recently tried to access Craigslist on her French dorm's internet, she got this instead:

According to the current security policy, the URL you have requested is blocked. Host : 'www.craigslist.org' URL : '/...' Categorie : 'Pornography and Sexually-explicit Content'

Weird.

Maybe somebody should have told them that regex-matching agains three-letter words is not exactly the best method of keeping your students from surfing around on "dirty" websites?

The page she wanted to see was a harmless "best of craigslist" story after all -- I doubt it would survive long on Craigslist otherwise.

Everybody stand back: I know regular expressions.

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