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The Callahan incident

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Submitted by Anonymous (Israel), Feb 24, 2006 at 09:15

Perhaps you've heard the latest story about Yahoo preventing users from registering e-mail accounts under names that include the word Allah. Ed Callahan discovered this when trying to sign up using his last name and repeatedly failing.
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This claim has been refuted by a number of users who were able to register names with the letters "allah." Further there are Arabic names (e.g. Abdallah) that include these letters.

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