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From: "Alan Melia" <alan.melia@btinternet.com>
To: <rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org>
Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2016 15:36:41 -0000
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Subject: LF: bouncing posts
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Hi all several members have been complaining about their inability to post 
messages to blacksheep. With the assistance of Chris 2E0ILY and his 
cooperative hosting site technical help desk, we have confirmed that his 
"lock-out" is due to exceeding the spam score on a message and being flagged 
as a spammer. It would seem that this state does not expire nor are 
subsequent messages even tested. You are still able to receive the 
distribution but not post.

As far as I can see this state can only be manually reset by the 
(non-existant) admin. The only solution seems to be to re-subscribe with a 
different email address. This does mean you will get two copies of the 
distribution because being flagged you may not get an unsubscribe message to 
the system either.

The spam scoring utility uses statistics to assess the probability a message 
is spam, see...
https://www.lifewire.com/bayesian-spam-filtering-1164096
the result is it is likely to make mistakes occasionally. The system uses 
path, domain, route (Laurence KL7K could not get in from China) and message 
content to derive a score.....so beware a jokey comment might get you banned 
:-))

I am sorry we cannot help further on this problem.

Alan
G3NYK