f it's a moderated newsgroup, as many are, the moderator can
simply refuse to put your posts onto the group.


true. However, on webtv, it works by banning the boxes by using the code on
your box.

Once the owner of a cerain club group sends the code, your webtv box is no
longer able to post to that particular newsgroup.

It gets banned by box, so even if there's other users on your box who did not
do anything wrong or did not make off-topic posts, they can't post in that
particular newsgroup, either.

The trouble is that most of the people that buy from RS are Trailer Trash
and putting down RS is like insulting the trailer park. They will strap on
the coveralls, light up the Corn-cob pipe and grab the 12 gage to defend it.

"Steve Giovanis" wrote in message
...
Earlier I posted about my experience with Radio shack and trunk tracker
scanners. How is this off topic to rec.radio.scanner ?

"Donald K" wrote in message
...
Mediaguy500 wrote:

At least you didn't get banned.

Q: How do you get "banned" from a usenet newsgroup?

A: (waiting for a punchline)

-D

Let's see. He was posting to a Batman (!) group on WebTV and is now posting
from a Compuserve account. That tells me all I need to know about his
technical prowess, although I really expected him to be posting from AOL.
g

(Mediaguy500) wrote in
:

How the hell is a 'ban' supposed to be enforced ?


It was on a webtv newsgroup. webtv also has what is known as "club
newsgroups".
These are moderated newsgroups in which the moderator can ban you from
the
newsgroup by using the code from your webtv box, so that you're not able
to post there even if you try to.


I guess that might explain it.
I've never been unfortunate enough to have to resort to webtv.