Have I Been Banned?

[Michael Torrie]

On 11/20/2018 09:39 AM, Jon Ribbens wrote:
> On 2018-11-20, Wildman <best_lay at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> In the past I have participated in the group without any
>> problems.  I access the forum through the usenet mirror
>> and I am still using the same newsreader and account.
>> Recently I made some followup posts to the group and they
>> never showed up.  Have I been banned?  If so, I would
>> appreciate it to know why?
> 
> If you mean you made posts to the comp.lang.python group and they did
> not show up on your news server then the problem is either at your
> end or with your news server - unlike the mailing list, the group is
> unmoderated and therefore nobody can be banned from it.

True, but moderators can remove some posts from the mailing list side of
the list.  But there's definitely no ban on Wildman on the mailing list
because I saw his post there.