Posted by John Hosking on 03/07/07 13:37

dorayme wrote:
> In article <45ee446a_5@news.bluewin.ch>, John Hosking wrote:
>
>>patrick j wrote:
>>
>>>On Mar 5, 2007 John Hosking wrote:
>>>
>>>>Nikita the Spider, Ivana the Monkey, Svetlana the Hairy-nosed Wombat.
>>>>What's the big difference? Don't be so picky. ;-)
>>>
>>>I think I'm the only human being that is using this newsgroup :(
>>
>>It seems that I almost never see your posts on my usual newsserver.
>>
>>Seriously, have you heard such reports from other people? Or is it just
>>my ISP/NP that's so stupid?
>
> Have you checked out your filters? There is a filter that is a
> little hidden in most newsreaders and can be changed according to
> complex procedures that depend very much on the newsreader
> itself. By default, all newsreaders nowadays have this one super
> filter. It has a special trigger. It is a sort of "kiss of death'
> filter and becomes active by any public contact with dorayme.

Well, *that's* not the problem. I've set my filters to explicitly allow
posts from Martians, spiders, human beings, and David Bowie, even if
they've been mingling with each other.

I certainly don't have any filters set to block Patrick J's posts on one
server but not from the other. And I know it's server-side because I can
use OE rather than TB with the same results.

--
John

[Back to original message]