Dear Torsten,
You sound as if you wanted to insinuate
something unpleasant, like a cunning plot by the list moderators to silence
you; judging from the symptoms described, your computer might have been hacked
:). It all happened during the brief period when moderation was on for reasons
known to all. At that time Cyril Babaev invited me to co-moderate the list.
Your remark was posted to me by the list server for approval and I did approve
it -- hesitantly, since the complaint was ridiculous, to be frank. No-one on the
list could have been responsible for the trouble you'd been having with your
PC. However, the message did not eventually appear on the list and I
never saw it again; I assumed at the time that Cyril had seen it first and
rejected it (in which case you ought to have been notified by the server;
pending messages do not disappear like that and AFAIK moderators
cannot simply snuff them out of existence).
Whatever happened, there was no wicked
conspiracy against you -- at worst, there was a moderator's decision to curtail
OT mail. That's what moderatorship is all about. As you can see, you're free to
mention heavy metals and lost messages now, though I do count on your
promise to hold your tongue. If you still have your suspicions about "somebody
or something out there", it's your personal problem.
Piotr
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Monday, April 23, 2001 9:34 PM
Subject: [tied] Re: LIST POLICY CHANGES
--- In cybalist@......, "Piotr
Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@......> wrote:
and
if somebody wants to discuss, say, heavy metal poisoning across
history,
it's very simple to start a new list (say,
historical_toxicology).
>
> Piotr
>
One little last remark from me on that peripheral
subject, and I'll
hold my tongue.
After I posted the various heavy
metal examples, I suddenly couldn't
get in contact with yahoo groups. Time
out. That lasted the whole day
on that computer. Anything else it could
access OK. The computer next
to it had no problems accessing yahoo groups.
Next day the first computer could access yahoo groups, but not
cybalist.
I could get around that by signing in, then selecting
cybalist among "my
groups".
I thought it was so strange that I posted a remark about it. It
disappeared!
Now I'm curious what happens to this (attempted)
posting.
It's nice to know somebody or something out there makes sure nothing
bad happens on the net.
Torsten