Yahoo!Mail bans email addresses that contain the letters A-L-L-A-H

[mandy]

Yahoo! is banning the use of allah in email names - even if the letters are included within another name.

This was uncovered by ...Ed Callahan whose mother Linda Callahan was trying to sign up for a  email address. She could not get it to accept her surname.

Nor will Yahoo! accept yahoo, osama or binladen. But it will accept god, messiah, jesus, jehova, buddah, satan and both priest and pedophile.

full article: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/02/20/...religious/

A related article that includes a more extensive listing of words that are banned and allowed by Yahoo!Mail

Hello, my name is Kallahar (well, it's an alias, but Kallahar really is a family name of an 1800's Irish family (Ancestry of William Kallahar, born 1830). I recently tried to create a user on Yahoo with my name.

Unfortunately, Yahoo said it was unavailable.

full article: http://quickwired.com/kallahar/stories/2.../yahoo.php

[mandy]

Nothing like a little bad press to get a company to change a bad policy. 

Yahoo! has reversed its decision to stop people registering Yahoo! IDs which include the letters "allah"...

...Yahoo! got in touch with us this morning to say it is now accepting Yahoo! identities which contain the letters "allah". The Callahans will be overjoyed...

full article: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/02/22/...ans_allah/