Thunderbird's been giving me this error from last friday (nov. 17th) so about one week ago. Now I've just tried another time with my default name&email registered in TB but it still gives me this error.
I've red E-S FAQ about
nymshifting and copy&paste below:
My postings are rejected with a "Excessive nymshifting" error
As a safeguard against spam, sporge floods and people who use "morphing" or "nymshifting" as a means to evade kill files the server will accept no more than 5 different mail addresses in the From: header within a period of 24 hours.
Your permission to post will automatically be re-established after 24 hours
Please also see Eternal-September's Usenet Abuse FAQ
I've been changing email addresses more than only 5 times along these years anyway this is the 1st time I get this sort of "ban". I don't think it's actually only a nymshifting matter else my ban would be now canceled according to the above FAQ but I can't post anymore.
So is this a morphing matter? Consider the following
FAQ about morphing taken from the above "Usenet Abuse":
Q: Will we terminate an account for excessive morphing to evade kill files?
A: We will first warn them and if they do not stop, we will term the account. Please note that morphing involves changing the email address. Simply changing the from name is not morphing. You should be kill filing on email address, not name.
Definitely this seems to me more a morphing than nymshifting matter because I've been changing both ones though my TB error warns me only about "nymshifting" and I'm afraid it's a sort of permanent ban from E-S by my ID account. The strange (and frustrating!) thing is I didn't ever receive any message in my gmail account (registered in E-S) to be warned about my mistake, if so I'd have stopped this myshifting/morphing.
What do you think about it?
This is the email I sent last saturday (nov. 18th) to Wolfgang (I copy&paste)t:
Good morning Mr. Weyand,
I joined eternal-september's newgroups and I've been posting there but today I've just got "Excessive nymshifting" error and now it's impossible for me to post.
I'd want to ask you if there's a solution for that, moreover I can ensure you I'll keep on using only a single username and email address from now.
Thank you for your time.
Best wishes.
What do you think about it? Does it sound like just bulls***t?
Honestly I can't wait a moth to send another email to Walgang to ask him to unblock my ban (writing what else?). If it's possible I'd like to erase my E-S subscription but I couldn't understand how to do it. I tried by "User settings" page but it seems only possible to change email and password, I mean it seems impossible both erasing my account and changing my ID.
Well, a quite easy solution would be to change my email address with a secondary email of mine for first then creating another account with a new ID and my current email address but I'd like to avoid this "workaround" to avoid to have 2 accounts, if possible.