I'm in the US, Maurizio, so the short answer is no. There's more to it than that.

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I have had another comment blocked as spam

Should we now have to accept that there is no point posting on Phil's blog as for unknown reasons we are effectively banned from posting there?

Even if Phil does find time to unban them, everyone has moved on and nobody will check back for unbanned posts, so we might as well submit randomly typed characters.

Phil is there a support number that goes with the service, because a number of would like to know what we did wrong. It happens both on my home PC / laptop and at my works PC.

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have you tried posting from a library or net-cafe?

It has happened again

Should we just conclude that I am to be blocked from taking part in Phil's Blog forever

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Van Rijn's original Invisible Elf was running for the North Carolina Senate, but dropped out of the contest after the paparazzi snapped him with a cute pixie just outside Disney World in Florida. Now he has settled down with her as they await their first child, writing his biography of life in Van Rijn's backyard, - Now you prove me wrong

It has done it again on the story about the pope in the fire

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Van Rijn's original Invisible Elf was running for the North Carolina Senate, but dropped out of the contest after the paparazzi snapped him with a cute pixie just outside Disney World in Florida. Now he has settled down with her as they await their first child, writing his biography of life in Van Rijn's backyard, - Now you prove me wrong

My supportive post of Phil has been caught

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Van Rijn's original Invisible Elf was running for the North Carolina Senate, but dropped out of the contest after the paparazzi snapped him with a cute pixie just outside Disney World in Florida. Now he has settled down with her as they await their first child, writing his biography of life in Van Rijn's backyard, - Now you prove me wrong

Same here.

Just for the heck of it, I attempted to post a short reply in support of what Phil wrote in his Bush league science again topic. It was rejected as being spam.

I have now given up on trying to provide commentary for the BA's blog.

Which is probably a good thing in many people's eyes.

Funny thing, I know what spam is, and nothing I've attempted to post even remotely resembles such a thing.

Oh well...

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Just had a thought; I wonder if a common English word is a spam trigger in another language. It could mean that a setting is wrong.

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I tried to post on the Trick or Treat section and got

I may just try and post "system test" somewhere to see if I get the same response.

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Van Rijn's original Invisible Elf was running for the North Carolina Senate, but dropped out of the contest after the paparazzi snapped him with a cute pixie just outside Disney World in Florida. Now he has settled down with her as they await their first child, writing his biography of life in Van Rijn's backyard, - Now you prove me wrong

Tried to post on the church and state blog and got
I may try and post with an alternate username and email etc

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Van Rijn's original Invisible Elf was running for the North Carolina Senate, but dropped out of the contest after the paparazzi snapped him with a cute pixie just outside Disney World in Florida. Now he has settled down with her as they await their first child, writing his biography of life in Van Rijn's backyard, - Now you prove me wrong

Well that did not work either

Same blog, posted under my first name and an email address I have never used for the blogs

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Van Rijn's original Invisible Elf was running for the North Carolina Senate, but dropped out of the contest after the paparazzi snapped him with a cute pixie just outside Disney World in Florida. Now he has settled down with her as they await their first child, writing his biography of life in Van Rijn's backyard, - Now you prove me wrong

Yep, mine are still being snagged as well, but Dr. BA eventually digs them out of the filter.

Mostly I just read there now, though. I really hate the idea of adding extra work to his day.

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Corporal Kate

I have had a question on the latest blog blocked

I still have no idea why this has got it in for me.

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Van Rijn's original Invisible Elf was running for the North Carolina Senate, but dropped out of the contest after the paparazzi snapped him with a cute pixie just outside Disney World in Florida. Now he has settled down with her as they await their first child, writing his biography of life in Van Rijn's backyard, - Now you prove me wrong

A question related to the great give away has been captured, just like every attempt to post to the blog.

This has been happening ever since Phil tweaked it and we were complaining about how some adverts hijacked our browsers, before Phil blocked them.

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Van Rijn's original Invisible Elf was running for the North Carolina Senate, but dropped out of the contest after the paparazzi snapped him with a cute pixie just outside Disney World in Florida. Now he has settled down with her as they await their first child, writing his biography of life in Van Rijn's backyard, - Now you prove me wrong

The kicker for me is that when I read Phil's blog I typically will want to reply/contribute to the various postings, for the most part in support of what he's written and to provide additional related evidence.

Since I'm no longer allowed to do that, I don't read Phil's blog that much, to wit, hardly ever.

Damn shame, he's a good writer and his writing is expressive of a perceptive mind.

But by comparison, my "contributions" would be so much chaff, therefore there's no great loss.

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Well, as I've posted many times, I cannot control what gets marked as spam. The best I can do is unmark it when it gets into my moderation queue. But for some reason some people get marked as spam and i never see it. There isn't much I can do, because if I turn filtering off I'll get hundreds of spam comments a day, and the comments will be totally useless.

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It would be nice to know what algorithm it is using and why a number of us have been black listed.

My other point is, that as the comments list grows, hardly anoone is going to go back to previously read comments to see if there is any new entries there, so even if the comment is unmarked, there was never any point posting it as no one will read it. You might as well just post random characters for all the good it is. Is there no way an unmarked comment can be moved to the end of the comments instead of leaving it in the position it would have been had it not been flagged as spam?

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Van Rijn's original Invisible Elf was running for the North Carolina Senate, but dropped out of the contest after the paparazzi snapped him with a cute pixie just outside Disney World in Florida. Now he has settled down with her as they await their first child, writing his biography of life in Van Rijn's backyard, - Now you prove me wrong

People who haven't read the comments yet when your comment finally gets posted read it.

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"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"

"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"

I have now tried, on the results of the book giveaway blog:

A different ID (Not Sticks)
A different Email address
Leaving the website blank

And it is still flagging my posts as spam.

This can be traced back to when Phil last did an upgrade with WordPress

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Van Rijn's original Invisible Elf was running for the North Carolina Senate, but dropped out of the contest after the paparazzi snapped him with a cute pixie just outside Disney World in Florida. Now he has settled down with her as they await their first child, writing his biography of life in Van Rijn's backyard, - Now you prove me wrong

Mine is flagged as spam too.
Even when I am at work.
I do not know why anything I post from here is considered as spam.
Siemens usually does not send SPAM around, but what do I know.

From home I do not even get to the spam filter as my messages get flagged as spam by some other agency. They claim, my ISPs router is an open proxy...

As for this, my contributions to the Blog's Comments can be considered as almost not existent. Its really frustrating that my posts have to be checked by Phil first (at least from work, from home they are simply dumped), and then appear (hours later) on position number 5 in a commenting thread (having already advanced by then to another topic) buried by 40 messages to remain unread under that pile.

I posted some comments to the new Blog entry a couple of minutes ago. Await them to appear in about 5 hours, when the BA got up.

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