Freecycle.org

It seems that a banned member of the San Diego Freecycle.org town, who repeatedly violated one of the guidelines (no punctuation in title - instituted to help emails not be filtered as spam) & [rudely] lied to the moderator (first about not being able to see the instruction in the rejection notice where to read the guidelines, before claiming that they had read the guidelines but saw nothing wrong with their posts) has successfully appealed to the global admins to de-moderate San Diego.

Good luck to all the members

1. being able to actually read new post emails
   &
2. having your own posts’ emails be read

• because too many punctuation marks in the subject line got them filtered to spam/trash/or blocked at the recipient server-side!

Note that one mark is always there by default- the : after OFFER or WANTED. New post emails have been filtered to my spam folder with more punctuation than that, no way to whitelist.

Has only the San Diego Freecycle.org town had broken URLs for rejection notices?

<a href="https://newdev.freecycle.org/town/SanDiegoCA/notices/undefined"> [...]

That bug was reported to sitemodhelp@… in late January, responded to by Mod Help Volunteer Alison, and then reiterated that it still wasn’t fixed in reply to sitemodhelp@…

Now almost November, and it still wasn’t fixed [as of multiple rejections, both real & test, on October 26].

The only viable workarounds seemed to be (at least for honest members posting in good faith) to make the hyperlink text say GOOGLE THIS: “Freecycle: San Diego-specific guidelines” & to send them as a mass notice to all members, which I received on 9/27/26, 00:52 UTC and was able to read top to bottom in the email itself, no broken URL standing in the way.