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Default I seem to have been banned

On Monday, December 3, 2018 at 11:36:04 AM UTC-10, Fruitiest of Fruitcakes wrote:
> On 3 Dec 2018, Bruce wrote
> (in >):
>
> > On Mon, 03 Dec 2018 18:53:37 +0000, Fruitiest of Fruitcakes
> > > wrote:
> >
> > > On 3 Dec 2018, Bruce wrote
> > > (in >):
> > >
> > > > On Mon, 03 Dec 2018 09:58:32 +0000, Fruitiest of Fruitcakes
> > > > > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > The last few replies I made have not appeared at all.
> > > >
> > > > And who do you think banned you?
> > >
> > > The same people who prevented my usenet posts with certain well chosen words
> > > contained in them from appearing; but allowed them through if I sent exactly
> > > the same messages with the words cut out.
> > >
> > > This was about a year ago, and I find it rather sinister.

> >
> > Do you really think Giganews censors your posts based on certain
> > words? That would be ridiculous.
> >
> > You could try a post with lots of swear words. We'll understand

>
> It wasnt swear words I was using.It was words chosen carefully to attract
> attention from anyone who might be monitoring; and it appeared to work.
>
> And although I might appear left wing on certain political ranting groups;
> most of that is an act wind right wing people up.
>
> Im not particularly politically biased either way in that I hate extremes
> of politics on either side. It just so happens that the right tends to have
> been in power more often than not over the last twenty years and criticism is
> seen as naturally being a loony leftie.


You should change your Usenet provider. Perhaps they think you're using too much bandwidth. Whatever it is, it doesn't matter - they got your number. I would stay away from Google Groups though. Google doesn't allow promiscuous postings all over town. They think I overpost sometimes. What??? That's the breaks.