David Bitterman wrote: > I would like to ask if anyone else on this list has had their posts > intentionally omitted?
As someone else already pointed out, sometimes people forget to change the address to 313@hyperreal.org when replying, in which case it goes to the original sender only and not the list. Or sometimes a (semi-)private discussion accidentally ends up on the list, in which case it seems like there've been posts missing. > I say this as I know of various people who have been "removed" or banned > from posting. This is highly unlikely. AFAIK, in the history of 313 (i.e. going back to 1994) the number of people that have been banned from the list can be counted on the fingers of one hand. Those bannings occurred only after serious and/or prolonged misconduct and while the past week or two may have been annoying in terms of 'not-this-discussion-again', there was no gross misconduct IMO. What is much more likely to have happened, is that those people's mailboxes were full or their mailservers down or something similar. In that case EZMLM (the listadmin software) sends a probe (whatever that may be) and if that fails, eventually removes that address from the list. Another reason may be that the sender is using a mailserver that is in the ORBS database (orbs.org) because it allows open relay. This makes it vulnerable for use by spammers, which is the reason that some mailservers refuse emails coming from mailservers that are in that database. I don't know if Hyperreal's mailserver uses ORBS, but if it does, it's another possible reason for not being able to post. Otto
