Odd tech question:

[saintsinner]

when you open an NZB file and no posts show up, does this mean that the post was utterly nuked, or it just hasn't made it to your newserver? I can find the posts using an indexer, but not by opening the NZB file, or the nzb file created by the indexer. It happens very rarely so isn't a huge deal, but the techie in me is curious.

[saintsinner]

and the answer is, they were posting as cpp-user@domain.com . So newsbin wasn't processing anything at all in the nzb file. Nuking that from the ignore list results in posts showing up when I open the nzb. Woot. FWIW, it would be ideal if someone manually opens up an NZB if it would bypass *all* filters including the kernel level ones and just go where it's told. However that's pie in the sky thoughts.