Lucy,
Please take me off your ping list.
I won’t be posting on freerepublic any more since the ‘adminstrator’ has blocked me from answering pm’s with a lame, “Sorry, your account is too new to use this feature.”
even though I have already sent and received over a thousand pm’s.
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Please see this post and replies - perhaps this is happening?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3440301/replies?c=27
and see this reply to post 58
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3440301/posts?page=84#84
Very interesting info details you posted. Regarding possible security breach you’re experiencing is real concerning.
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A friend of mine had a similar experience, but not with FR. With, of all things, verizon. Logged in and was addressed by an unfamiliar user name. Reported to verizon, which shrugged it off — they didn’t know or care what happened. I was consulted — took it to my favorite techie who said (as best I recall in my non-techie mind) that it was a hack by a shadow user, not a hack of verizon but of the individual’s device, and the hacker probably has a shadow presence for every site visited. In other words your every keystroke is monitored by someone. Maybe a government spook, maybe a dark web freak; no way to know for sure, and even your internet provider doesn’t give a rap.
Whenflow,
In this instance you are very wrong.
Poster harpu objected to my posting photos of left wing icon Ali knocked flat on his back by Joe Frazier and others.
harpu contacted his ‘administrator’ buddies and they removed all the photos I had posted and blocked my answering of pm’s with the lame “Your account is too new to use this feature” even though I had already sent and received over a thousand pms on my account.
They also blocked me from posting with the following, “Thank you for your contribution. Your comment has been submitted for review.”
This was the sick politics on fr between certain posters and their ‘administrator” buddies who work in tandem with them.