Elmida
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I don't know. When I saw your question above, I immediately checked your email address to see if, by chance, it was one of the European-based domains that mostly exist as spam-launchers, and discovered it's not. (I recently purged a thousand or so malicious or spamming accounts through wiping out a few select email domains - but, as just said, your email isn't one of them.) I was careful to weed out legitimate accounts in doing this, but mistakes could have happened (since the process involved visually scanning a list of sometimes hundreds of user names before hitting the Confirm button.)
If I inadvertently wiped you out, I'm sorry (say, if you used a different doman before, such as ymail.com).
Welcome back.
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Oh I see. Thank you very much for the reply. I got very worried about what I could possibly have done wrong to get banned. Glad to be back!
EDIT: oh, I'm registered on a Hotmail address, by the way. Because my gmail didn't get accepted because of the spam prevention. And I -am- in Europe, so I'll have a European IP address. Maybe that's it?
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@Elmida said
"Oh I see. Thank you very much for the reply. I got very worried about what I could possibly have done wrong to get banned. Glad to be back!"
Right. Gmail accounts are pretty universally the most responsible for the most spamming, and are always the first I block on any forum for which I'm responsible. A few had snuck in, and I recently discovered a few had snuck in under variant domains (googlemail.com, gmail.org, etc.) so I wiped those out.
"EDIT: oh, I'm registered on a Hotmail address, by the way. Because my gmail didn't get accepted because of the spam prevention. And I -am- in Europe, so I'll have a European IP address. Maybe that's it?"
Not an automatic "that's it," although - if the account otherwise looks suspicious and has no posts to it - that would be enough to tip me to delete it. In a tech forum I maintain, we had to block everything from your country years ago because (after Russia, China, and Eastern Block countries all blocked) it became the largest source of spam registrations. (Two of our heaviest contributors on that board were from your country, and I allowed them uniquely, but it was a pain because they had to be sure to give me every IP address they expected to use.)
These things come in waves. Currently, IP from France and, especially, Germany are on the rise. So far, I've managed not to block them, and to find other ways to manage the "bad guys."