What a cock-up over email
`A council planning department was hit by chaos — after computers banned “erection” from emails.
The word is one of the most commonly used terms in applications for building works.
But it was also included in a list of obscene expressions to be filtered out by software used by Rochdale Council, Greater Manchester. [..]
A Rochdale Council spokesman said: “The software is not designed by the council and we don’t control which words are blocked. We will be apologising to the resident.”’
