The 42 Words You Can Never Say in Emails to the D.C. Government

The District’s email system, it turns out, has a lot more verboten words than that: 42. A test email from The Post with one of the offending terms to a dc.gov email address brought a bounceback notice. … Justin Cappos, an assistant professor of systems and security at New York University [Tandon School of Engineering], said the District’s approach to spam “isn’t surprising.” The only problem: Bounceback messages might help spammers.