I had not noticed, but it appears now the reason was my inclusion of FR's resident snow-flake Allegra in my address line.
Clearly, there's a new rule here that I don't understand -- how can anybody "take offense" at being included in the addressees of a post in a thread they've already made posts to, thus clearly indicating their interest in the subject?
If you don't like what I post, then ignore it, nobody requires you to read it, must less respond.
Sure, I confess, I'm a relative new-comer, only been here around 20 years now, but in that time I've never requested a post be deleted or demanded that somebody not ping me.
I've long noticed that the name here is Free Republic, implying the land of the free, home of the brave.
Now it seems we are to be ruled by woke snowflakes who "take offense" at any infraction or "micro-aggression"?
The old rule was, we are to list everyone in the address line who's part of that conversation, directly or indirectly.
The new rule is, leave snowflake Allegra off the address list, even if the post discusses him (her?) directly.
I can live with that rule.
But I don't see how Allegra can.