# Banned!? Me!? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [April 29, 2000, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banned-me/7530 "2000-04-29T04:57:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Louie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c68b51/32.png) [@Louie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Louie)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2000, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banned-me/7530/1 "2000-04-29T04:57:51Z")
Just checking to see if I can still post. If you can see this, then I wonder why my email address is banned when I try to change my profile :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Louie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c68b51/32.png) [@Louie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Louie)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2000, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banned-me/7530/2 "2000-04-29T04:59:34Z")
Okay, now why did that work? 😕 _sigh_ ---
**Author:** ![Zor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/848f3c/32.png) [@Zor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zor)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2000, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banned-me/7530/3 "2000-04-29T05:00:56Z")
It looks like most of the free e-mail accounts have been banned, with Hotmail being the prime example. Your account is still there though, so I suppose it’ll just be frozen in place until the administrators do something about it. I’ve been banned too… ---
**Author:** ![Louie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c68b51/32.png) [@Louie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Louie)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2000, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banned-me/7530/4 "2000-04-29T05:37:15Z")
I changed email addresses to my (not so) personal email and now I’m not banned. _sigh_ I made the hotmail so my other email address won’t get spammed. Now I don’t know if there are spammers around here and I know that you all are against people spamming the boards, but still I don’t like it giving my personal email in public like this. ---
**Author:** ![Cabbage](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f07891/32.png) [@Cabbage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cabbage)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2000, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banned-me/7530/5 "2000-04-29T05:48:52Z")
Just making sure I’m still here. The new board looks good! ---
**Author:** ![Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2000, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banned-me/7530/6 "2000-04-29T05:50:16Z")
Louie, One option is to _not_ list your e-mail and just post it in threads where somebody evinces a need to communicate with you directly. ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2000, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banned-me/7530/7 "2000-04-29T05:50:38Z")
And also read JDavis’s announcement at the top about “banning,” please. You’re not banned. IF YOU WERE NOT BANNED BEFORE, YOU’RE NOT BANNED NOW. This is a situation that will be resolved in the next day or two. (Told you we might have a glitch or two along the way.) your humble TubaDiva Administrator The Straight Dope PS You can also adjust your profile so that your email address does not show. Try that, please. ---
**Author:** ![Louie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c68b51/32.png) [@Louie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Louie)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2000, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banned-me/7530/8 "2000-04-29T05:51:33Z")
Ack, okay okay I’m calmed down now. Sorry. ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2000, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banned-me/7530/9 "2000-04-29T06:18:52Z")
Just testing… ---
**Author:** ![2nd\_Law](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/2/f475e1/32.png) [@2nd\_Law](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/2nd_Law)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2000, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banned-me/7530/10 "2000-04-29T14:15:22Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\* > And also read JDavis’s announcement at the top about “banning,” please. > > You’re not banned. IF YOU WERE NOT BANNED BEFORE, YOU’RE NOT BANNED NOW. > > This is a situation that will be resolved in the next day or two. > > (Told you we might have a glitch or two along the way.) > > your humble TubaDiva > Administrator > The Straight Dope > > PS You can also adjust your profile so that your email address does not show. Try that, please. > \*\* and it seems to be possible that if you were banned before, you aren’t now, as witness the posting today by OgreFade.