From scientific illiteracy, like most of America. Jim Shields At 01:32 PM 2/11/2008 -0800, you wrote: >Does Yahoo suffer from backward thinking or just backward technology? Or >both? > >On Feb 11, 2008 11:15 AM, Diane Whitehead <voltaire@islandnet.com> wrote: > > > PBS uses Latin names, and Yahoo blushes. Well, just North American > > Yahoo. The Yahoos in Japan, Taiwan and the U.K. either didn't > > notice, or are more sophisticated. > > > > A message from PBS contained the Latin name of that giant aroid. > > Yahoo noticed that part of that name was a term for a body part. > > Rather a high-class term, but nevertheless, Yahoo in North America > > blocked its members from receiving PBS messages. ....... ************************************************* Jim Shields USDA Zone 5 Shields Gardens, Ltd. P.O. Box 92 WWW: http://www.shieldsgardens.com/ Westfield, Indiana 46074, USA Tel. ++1-317-867-3344 or toll-free 1-866-449-3344 in USA