Hello Arachnids:
I just sent a reply to my family mailing list @egroups.com in which
I quoted from and commented about an ad received on the list.
(egroups.com provides a free mailing list service for anyone who wants
to set up a mailing list. egroups.com will automatically append a single
three-liner text ad to any message posted. That is how they make their
money. There is no obligation for the list members to respond to any ads.
egroups.com never sends spam messages but they always append a very short
text ad to any message that a member posts to the list. All list members
have voluntarily opted in by invitation by me, the moderator, and they may
easily unsubscribe.)
For some strange reason, the ad that I quoted within the body of my
message text was excluded from the posting that appeared on the list.
As a test I found that I could send the same message in its entirety
to two of my own private email addresses.
I do not understand how egroups.com was able to "censor" my quoting
of their own ad, nor do I understand why they would even want to have
a re-transmission of one of their own ads censored. My comment about
the ad was not unfavorable.
Does anyone have any ideas as to how and why they censored part of my
message?
Sam Heywood
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