Monday, February 27, 2006

Yahoo Mail reverses ban

Yahoo Mail will now let people register usernames that include the word "allah," after <A HREF="http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-6042062.html?tag=zdnn.alert">a ban designed to thwart prejudice</A> went astray. The policy reversal, announced Wednesday, came too late for Linda Callahan of Ashfield, Mass., who set up a Google Gmail account after being rejected by Yahoo Mail because of the presence of "allah" in her name, said her son, Ed Callahan. The existence of the ban made a bit of a splash on the Web after it was reported in The Daily Hampshire Gazette on Friday and picked up by The Register and Slashdot this week. Early Wednesday, Yahoo issued a statement about its new policy and the reasons for the original ban.

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