Re: What is YOUR view?

On Tue, 30 Apr 2024 11:13:17 +0100, the following appeared
in talk.origins, posted by Martin Harran
<martinharran@gmail.com>:

On Tue, 30 Apr 2024 11:57:13 +0200, Athel Cornish-Bowden
<me@yahoo.com> wrote:
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For two or three years the talk.origins server refused to accept my
posts (I never did discover why; there were no error messages).

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Were you by any chance using news.individual.net? It was my only
service for a long time, no need to consider anything else as it was
totally reliable across the various newsgroups I frequented at that
time. Then it suddenly stopped posting to talk.origins with no errors
shown, just posts not appearing.. A few others reported the same
problem but nobody was ever to figure out why it was happening, the
suspicion was that it was something to do with NIN taking a dislike
the TO moderation software. I ended up adding eternal.september
specifically for TO.
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IIRC (it's been a while) that was a fairly common problem
with various news servers back in the '90s; the
robo-moderation caused "issues" and t.o had to be manually
allowed by the servers as a "special case". Again IIRC, that
was an issue with my then-news server, comcast.net. I
*think* it's no longer an issue with most.

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