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Originally Posted by crispus
As to the asterisks, it's an anomaly of OCC's policy of censoring certain terms that the operation proceeds irrespective of whether the term is used as such, or merely the "offending" word has the misfortune to include within its spelling a verboten set of consecutive letters: notice what the middle four letters of that word happen to be...
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This is occasionally known as "the Sc*nthorpe Problem", after a town in England that falls foul of many such unsophisticated filtering attempts.