What has happened to Gurney?

I know I shouldn't be complaining but curiosity has got the better of me.

There has been no post from our self appointed newsgroup policeman for
nearly 2 weeks. However, I have noticed the odd reply to a non existent
post. I thought I had killfiled him but, no I haven't. Just checked on
google newsgroups advanced search and there are about a dozen or so posts
from him that are not present here (or at least not visible). Has someone
got the message and blocked him?

"Walter Wall" <wall@privacy.net> wrote in message
news:48687fc9$1_1@glkas0286.greenlnk.net...
>I know I shouldn't be complaining but curiosity has got the better of me.
>
> There has been no post from our self appointed newsgroup policeman for
> nearly 2 weeks. However, I have noticed the odd reply to a non existent
> post. I thought I had killfiled him but, no I haven't. Just checked on
> google newsgroups advanced search and there are about a dozen or so posts
> from him that are not present here (or at least not visible). Has someone
> got the message and blocked him?

I was wondering as well. I've checked, and he's not in my kill file either.
I've not seen any post from him since the 17th June. I have seen a couple
of replies to invisible posts.

AFAIAA, Microsoft do not monitor or read this newsgroup so it's unlikely
that he's been blocked (at least by them). Besides the few replies that
there are to his boring posts suggests that they are not blocked but being
filtered somehow (and not to everyone).

M.I.5¾ wrote:
> "Walter Wall" <wall@privacy.net> wrote in message
> news:48687fc9$1_1@glkas0286.greenlnk.net...
>> I know I shouldn't be complaining but curiosity has got the better of me.
>>
>> There has been no post from our self appointed newsgroup policeman for
>> nearly 2 weeks. However, I have noticed the odd reply to a non existent
>> post. I thought I had killfiled him but, no I haven't. Just checked on
>> google newsgroups advanced search and there are about a dozen or so posts
>> from him that are not present here (or at least not visible). Has someone
>> got the message and blocked him?
>
> I was wondering as well. I've checked, and he's not in my kill file either.
> I've not seen any post from him since the 17th June. I have seen a couple
> of replies to invisible posts.
>
> AFAIAA, Microsoft do not monitor or read this newsgroup so it's unlikely
> that he's been blocked (at least by them). Besides the few replies that
> there are to his boring posts suggests that they are not blocked but being
> filtered somehow (and not to everyone).
>
>
>
My reader is showing 11 of them in the past week here. Granted I'm
only showing new, and I have a filter that marks him as read. So
that's not unexpected. BUt still I see quite a few of him on my
thunderbird. And I'm reading from microsoft's server.

Various postings from the evening of the 27 that I see here on the
MSnews server.

Walter Wall wrote:

> I know I shouldn't be complaining but curiosity has got the better of me.
>
> There has been no post from our self appointed newsgroup policeman for
> nearly 2 weeks. However, I have noticed the odd reply to a non existent
> post. I thought I had killfiled him but, no I haven't. Just checked on
> google newsgroups advanced search and there are about a dozen or so posts
> from him that are not present here (or at least not visible). Has someone
> got the message and blocked him?
>
>

Bob I wrote:
> Various postings from the evening of the 27 that I see here on the
> MSnews server.
>
> Walter Wall wrote:
>
>> I know I shouldn't be complaining but curiosity has got the better of me.
>>
>> There has been no post from our self appointed newsgroup policeman for
>> nearly 2 weeks. However, I have noticed the odd reply to a non
>> existent post. I thought I had killfiled him but, no I haven't. Just
>> checked on google newsgroups advanced search and there are about a
>> dozen or so posts from him that are not present here (or at least not
>> visible). Has someone got the message and blocked him?
>>
>
Perhaps he has changed his name again.

Bill

Bill Sharpe wrote:

> Bob I wrote:
>
>> Various postings from the evening of the 27 that I see here on the
>> MSnews server.
>>
>> Walter Wall wrote:
>>
>>> I know I shouldn't be complaining but curiosity has got the better of
>>> me.
>>>
>>> There has been no post from our self appointed newsgroup policeman
>>> for nearly 2 weeks. However, I have noticed the odd reply to a non
>>> existent post. I thought I had killfiled him but, no I haven't.
>>> Just checked on google newsgroups advanced search and there are about
>>> a dozen or so posts from him that are not present here (or at least
>>> not visible). Has someone got the message and blocked him?
>>>
>>
> Perhaps he has changed his name again.
>
> Bill

Also saw additional ones from the 29th in windowsXP.general

Walter Wall wrote:
> I know I shouldn't be complaining but curiosity has got the better of me.
>
> There has been no post from our self appointed newsgroup policeman for
> nearly 2 weeks. However, I have noticed the odd reply to a non existent
> post. I thought I had killfiled him but, no I haven't. Just checked on
> google newsgroups advanced search and there are about a dozen or so posts
> from him that are not present here (or at least not visible). Has someone
> got the message and blocked him?
>
>
You might be experiencing a problem I had with Cox Cable and it's
newsgroups. They appeared to be filtering messages by the sender's
domain which made reading any thread quite interesting. The posts are
out there, just not on your server. Cox was filtering about 1/3 of the
messages in the groups I watch and there was no notice, even with their
tech support that they were doing this.

On Mon, 30 Jun 2008 08:42:10 -0700, Bill Sharpe
<wfsnopam@adelphia.net> wrote:

>Bob I wrote:
>> Various postings from the evening of the 27 that I see here on the
>> MSnews server.
>>
>> Walter Wall wrote:
>>
>>> I know I shouldn't be complaining but curiosity has got the better of me.
>>>
>>> There has been no post from our self appointed newsgroup policeman for
>>> nearly 2 weeks. However, I have noticed the odd reply to a non
>>> existent post. I thought I had killfiled him but, no I haven't. Just
>>> checked on google newsgroups advanced search and there are about a
>>> dozen or so posts from him that are not present here (or at least not
>>> visible). Has someone got the message and blocked him?
>>>
>>
>Perhaps he has changed his name again.
>
>Bill

Nope. Not time to do that yet.

"Bob I" <birelan@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:OH56Sus2IHA.4164@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
>
>
> Bill Sharpe wrote:
>
>> Bob I wrote:
>>
>>> Various postings from the evening of the 27 that I see here on the
>>> MSnews server.
>>>
>>> Walter Wall wrote:
>>>
>>>> I know I shouldn't be complaining but curiosity has got the better of
>>>> me.
>>>>
>>>> There has been no post from our self appointed newsgroup policeman for
>>>> nearly 2 weeks. However, I have noticed the odd reply to a non
>>>> existent post. I thought I had killfiled him but, no I haven't. Just
>>>> checked on google newsgroups advanced search and there are about a
>>>> dozen or so posts from him that are not present here (or at least not
>>>> visible). Has someone got the message and blocked him?
>>>>
>>>
>> Perhaps he has changed his name again.
>>
>> Bill
>
> Also saw additional ones from the 29th in windowsXP.general
>

Just popped over there and, no, there aren't any posts from him there
either.

Walter Wall wrote:

> "Bob I" <birelan@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:OH56Sus2IHA.4164@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
>
>>
>>Bill Sharpe wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Bob I wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Various postings from the evening of the 27 that I see here on the
>>>>MSnews server.
>>>>
>>>>Walter Wall wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>I know I shouldn't be complaining but curiosity has got the better of
>>>>>me.
>>>>>
>>>>>There has been no post from our self appointed newsgroup policeman for
>>>>>nearly 2 weeks. However, I have noticed the odd reply to a non
>>>>>existent post. I thought I had killfiled him but, no I haven't. Just
>>>>>checked on google newsgroups advanced search and there are about a
>>>>>dozen or so posts from him that are not present here (or at least not
>>>>>visible). Has someone got the message and blocked him?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>Perhaps he has changed his name again.
>>>
>>>Bill
>>
>>Also saw additional ones from the 29th in windowsXP.general
>>
>
>
> Just popped over there and, no, there aren't any posts from him there
> either.
>

Either they aren't on whatever server you subscribed to or you blocked
him. They are are on the Menses server.