Anonymous Servers - anonymous post block?

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anonymous post block?

Nomen Nescio

2007-10-25, 7:14 am

I have tried to post twice (anonymously) to alt.drugs.psychedelic and neither post
showed up. I tried posting to a test newsgroup using the same remailers, and it
showed up.

Is it possible that someone is blocking anonymous posts to newsgroups? My mail.log
says that the post was sent.

Anonymous Sender

2007-10-26, 1:14 pm

In article <c5f6a18f978e3fc0b4ceffd807766b46@dizum.com>
Nomen Nescio <nobody@dizum.com> wrote:
>
> I have tried to post twice (anonymously) to alt.drugs.psychedelic and neither post
> showed up. I tried posting to a test newsgroup using the same remailers, and it
> showed up.
>
> Is it possible that someone is blocking anonymous posts to newsgroups? My mail.log
> says that the post was sent.

I assume Message ID: <ed563b4711af3d909f13f56c9b128b5c@dizum.com> was one
of them. If so, I do see that one on one of the news servers I regularly
connect to.
Another five of news servers do not even carry the group
alt.drugs.psychedelic, but rather only the group alt.drugs.psychedelics.
This leads me to believe that possibly the mail2news used in your failed
message(s) do not carry alt.drugs.psychedelic either, so it's not a matter
of evil blocking but just the fact that the mail2news has no group to which
to send the message. Many times when two groups (alt.drugs.psychedelic &
alt.drugs.psychedelics for example) are so similar that one is deemed a
"rogue", defunct, or unnecessarily duplicated group and many news providers
will only carry one. Even google groups doesn't seem to archive
alt.drugs.psychedelic.

Just a guess.

Anonymous Sender

2007-10-26, 1:14 pm

In article < b71d008574c0143b6a50069c4b3c0303@remaile
r.metacolo.com>
I <anonymous@remailer.metacolo.com> wrote:
>
> In article <c5f6a18f978e3fc0b4ceffd807766b46@dizum.com>
> Nomen Nescio <nobody@dizum.com> wrote:
>
> I assume Message ID: <ed563b4711af3d909f13f56c9b128b5c@dizum.com> was one
> of them. If so, I do see that one on one of the news servers I regularly
> connect to.
> Another five of news servers do not even carry the group
> alt.drugs.psychedelic, but rather only the group alt.drugs.psychedelics.
> This leads me to believe that possibly the mail2news used in your failed
> message(s) do not carry alt.drugs.psychedelic either, so it's not a matter
> of evil blocking but just the fact that the mail2news has no group to which
> to send the message. Many times when two groups (alt.drugs.psychedelic &
> alt.drugs.psychedelics for example) are so similar that one is deemed a
> "rogue", defunct, or unnecessarily duplicated group and many news providers
> will only carry one. Even google groups doesn't seem to archive
> alt.drugs.psychedelic.
>
> Just a guess.

Looks like my guess was wrong. Further investigation leads me to conclude
that you (Mr. Nescio) intended to followup to two messages in
alt.drugs.psychedelics and typo-ed the Newsgroups: header to be
alt.drugs.psychedelic. The messages do appear there, so if you expected to
see them in alt.drugs.psychedelics nothing blocked you except your fat
fingers.

HTH

Nomen Nescio

2007-10-28, 7:14 am

Anonymous Sender wrote:
> In article < b71d008574c0143b6a50069c4b3c0303@remaile
r.metacolo.com>
> I <anonymous@remailer.metacolo.com> wrote:
>
> Looks like my guess was wrong. Further investigation leads me to conclude
> that you (Mr. Nescio) intended to followup to two messages in
> alt.drugs.psychedelics and typo-ed the Newsgroups: header to be
> alt.drugs.psychedelic. The messages do appear there, so if you expected to
> see them in alt.drugs.psychedelics nothing blocked you except your fat
> fingers.
>
> HTH
>

Yes, I realized that a few hours before I saw your posts when I tried to do a
search on google groups for alt.drugs.psychedelic. I'm not used to having to
type out the names of the newsgroups manually. Hopefully I'll be able to link
one of our news readers to mixmaster.

Thanks for the input.