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by jasode 2142 days ago
From the scant details about the word "BELLY" triggering the blocks, it looks like some hypothesize it's a "Scunthorpe" type of programming bug:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem

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I don't see "cunt" or any similar string anywhere in the string "belly". As mentioned at TFA, this is more likely some sort of naive Bayes filtering since "belly" is often seen in "lose belly fat fast!" etc.
The article reads like it's much less sophisticated than Bayes. Perhaps just "x messages that have belly in them over y time period". Where either x is too small, or y is too big.
I would guess it is aimed as "reduce belly fat" spam.