"offending message" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used to describe a message that is causing offense or may be perceived as offensive. An example could be, "The politician quickly retracted his statement after realizing it was an offending message to many of his constituents."
In this spirit, she posted the image of herself-as-genitalia on her blog — it was surely the first time that the T.L.S. site might have needed a Not Safe for Work warning — and suggested possible responses for her supporters to take, such as flooding the offending message board with Latin poetry.
Police have removed the offending message and conducted additional patrols in the area.
But Mr. Chambers is an ideal Twitter hero, so immersed in life on the site that, he said, he sent 14,000 tweets in the 11 months before his offending message.
In the suit, which names New York City and several police officers as defendants, Mr. Hallowell, 24, says that the officers "deliberately and maliciously ignored a mountain of evidence" that proved that he did not send the offending message.
The bug, which was originally identified causing crashes on iPhones, has now been shown to also affect the Apple Watch, causing it to crash when attempting to reply to the offending message via voice using Siri.
In court many months later, Jennifer Martin was asked if she'd eventually learned that the offending message had not, in fact, been sent by Aaron — it had grown out of something said on a MySpace account set up in Aaron's name as a prank — and she answered in the affirmative.
It sometimes deletes offending messages altogether.
A spokeswoman for Demon, which is now owned by Thus, a telecom and internet company in Glasgow, said it was striving to comply with the law requiring it to respond to complaints by removing offending messages from its news groups.
She claimed to have forwarded the offending messages to the company.
Asked about the rest of the offending messages, PricewaterhouseCoopers said it would contact the Web site about removing them.
I have a suggestion: Victims should be instructed to print out the offending messages and show them to their parents, who should then show the messages to the parents of the children doing the bullying.
