Spam filters blocking Ontario county with a racy name

By Amy Bennett  1 comment

If you aren't getting important emails from the government of Middlesex County, Ontario, your spam filter may be to blame. The county's domain -- county.middlesex.on.ca -- is being deemed pornographic by some email spam blockers. The county is soon moving to new domain, mdlsx.ca, which will hopefully solve the problem.

[ via cnews ]

1 comment

    Anonymous 2 years ago
    I lived in Scunthorpe some while back, that was also a problem!

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