I WAS APPARENTLY BANNED THIS WEEK BY THE AUSTIN AMERICAN-STATESMAN FROM WRITING TO IT---DURING A PERIOD IN WHICH I CONTINUE TO PAY A MONTHLY FEE TO THE STATESMAN FOR THEIR ONLINE NEWSPAPER SERVICE

 I find it very sobering to note that this week, for the time ever, executive editor John Bridges of the Gannett-owned "Austin American-Statesman" daily newspaper in Austin, Texas, is sending me automatic reply notes stating that an "Administrative Prohibition" on emails from me to himself have been imposed --- apparently either by Mr. Bridges or by the Gannett media company corporate headquarters in McLean, Virginia:

mailer-daemon@yahoo.com To:mcmillanj@att.net Wed, Nov 18 (2020) at 2:46 PM Sorry, we were unable to deliver your message to the following address. <jbridges@statesman.com>: 550: Administrative prohibition - envelope blocked - https://community.mimecast.com/docs/DOC-1369#550 [Sbjkt0N4M6uZD_YUqk4gww.us535] _____ When I then tried calling the office phone number for Mr. Bridges at the Statesman, his voice mail greeting stated that he was not available to take my call, but that I was invited by him to contact his newspaper at "newstips@statesman.com". When I then followed his voice mail message's guidance on that, I received the following automatic reply: mailer-daemon@yahoo.com To:mcmillanj@att.net Wed, Nov 18 (2020) at 4:14 PM Sorry, we were unable to deliver your message to the following address. <newstips@statesman.com>: 550: Administrative prohibition - envelope blocked - https://community.mimecast.com/docs/DOC-1369#550 [pjchFMXmOwiKH9FCZf34iA.us19] ___________ This apparent alleged ban on any email letters from me to the "American-Statesman" in Austin is occurring during a multi-month time period in which I am making full monthly payments to that Gannett newspaper for an online subscription to that paper which currently holds a virtual monopoly over daily newspaper coverage of this state capital city for Texas. I am fully up-to-date on my monthly payments for that online service from the Statesman. American-Statesman editor John Bridges had asked me last year to direct any and all of my emails for the "American-Statesman" to himself, with no other staff member there being cited by him as an option for me. Mr. Bridges in mid-May 2019 imposed that "me-only" restriction (below) on myself, John Kevin McMillan of Austin, Texas, after a star reporter for their newspaper, Philip Jankowski, sent me a bluntly worded and terse rejection note (farther below): ----- Forwarded Message ----- From: Bridges, John <jbridges@statesman.com> To: John McMillan <mcmillanj@att.net> Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2019, 03:32:42 PM CDT Subject: Re: Fw: 4-16-19 ideas and info for your commission This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient or authorized to receive this for the intended recipient, you must not use, copy, disclose or take any action based on this message or any information herein. If you have received this message in error, please advise the sender immediately by sending a reply e-mail and delete this message. Thank you for your cooperation. Mr. McMillan, Please just send your emails directly to me from here on and avoid mass email lists of our staff. The mass email list is the reason you received an "unsubscribe" response. jb --John Bridges Executive editor, Austin American-Statesman Gate House Texas regional editor(512) 912-2952@johnbridges📷statesman.com • austin360.com • hookem.com • 512tech.com _______ On Wed, Apr 17, 2019 at 3:06 PM John McMillan <mcmillanj@att.net> wrote: To: Austin American-Statesman Managing Editor John Bridges and Editor-in-Chief Bill Church. April 17, 2019 Dear Mr. Bridges and Mr. Church, Earlier today, I received the following very surprising rejection letter from a reporter for your newspaper who apparently indicated that he represents the entire Metro Desk staff, including any and all editors, reporters, and other members of your Metro Desk staff. That reporter of yours was apparently responding to an e-mail carbon-copy I had directly sent to the "metrodesk@statesman.com". His own e-mail address and name were not specifically cited in carbon-copies I had e-mailed to a variety of public officials, civic groups, and media organizations on a very recent letter (below) of mine. I am also sending you a courtesy carbon-copy verifying for you that it was the Statesman Metro Desk staff, rather than any particular reporter or editor at your Metro Desk, to whom the cited public-policy-theme e-mail letter of mine had been addressed. I would appreciate receiving a courtesy reply letter from either of you high-ranking editors, clarifying whether you believe that that one reporter of yours can in fact "represent" and speak on behalf of your entire Metro Desk staff, such as by himself prohibiting any additional e-mails from me at your Metro Desk e-mail address of metrodesk@statesman.com. If you do in fact endorse that reporter's conduct toward me that was apparently on behalf of the entire "Metro Desk" staff, I would appreciate your informing me of which editors or reporters or officials on your staff, such as your distinguished publisher, ARE willing to accept e-mails from me, along with the correct e-mail addresses for my contacting those Statesman editors or reporters or other officials. Sincerely and Best Wishes, John Kevin McMillan.10926 Jollyville Road, Apt. 1609, Austin, TX 78759.Home phone: (512) 342-2295.E-mail: mcmillanj@att.netMy Blog: John Kevin McMillan: A 21st Century Conservative Left-Wing Agenda John Kevin McMillan: A 21st Century Conservative Left-Wing Agenda _____ -----From: Jankowski, Philip <pjankowski@statesman.com> To: John McMillan <mcmillanj@att.net> Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2019, 2:04:17 AM CDT Subject: Re: Fw: 4-16-19 ideas and info for your commission This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient or authorized to receive this for the intended recipient, you must not use, copy, disclose or take any action based on this message or any information herein. If you have received this message in error, please advise the sender immediately by sending a reply e-mail and delete this message. Thank you for your cooperation. Unsubscribe -Philip Jankowski Staff writer / Austin American-Statesman o 512.445.3702 f 512.445.1736 e pjankowski@statesman.com Twitter: @PhilJankowskistatesman.com mystatesman.com austin360.com ahorasi.com _________ On Wed, Apr 17, 2019 at 12:03 AM John McMillan <mcmillanj@att.net> wrote: I apologize to each of you for two typographical errors I somehow committed in my very recent brainstorming letter, below, that was directly addressed to City of Austin Commission on Seniors staff members. The two errors occurred when I attempted to accurately transcribe a 2016 quote from then-Precinct-3 Constable (and currently Travis County Sheriff) Sally Hernandez that I had found this month in an online edition of the "Oak Hill Gazette" newspaper. The following is the corrected version of that statement from Ms. Hernandez, with the word "me" now being inserted and the word "senior" now being correctly spelled, and each of those two corrections being bold-faced by me in order to highlight them in this particular context: "With over 34 years of law enforcement experience, I can tell you the two areas of crime that anger me the most are crimes against children and crimes against our senior citizens." As a courtesy to each of you, I have also inserted each of those typographical corrections into the text of my brainstorming letter, below. Thank you to each of you for your kind patience and understanding on this. I value having very fine credibility as an accurate and honest writer and philanthropy-minded single adult resident. Sincerely and Best Wishes, John Kevin McMillan of northwest Austin. Home phone: (512) 342-2295 ____ ----- Forwarded Message ----- From: John McMillan <mcmillanj@att.net>To: Michelle Friedman <michelle.friedman@austintexas.gov>; Elena Smart <elena.smart@austintexas.gov>; adrienne.sturrup@austintexas.gov <adrienne.sturrup@austintexas.gov>; Jacqueline L. Angel <jangel@austin.utexas.edu>; sally.hernandez@traviscountytx.gov <sally.hernandez@traviscountytx.gov>; margaret.moore@traviscountytx.gov <margaret.moore@traviscountytx.gov>; Gerald Daugherty <gerald.daugherty@traviscountytx.gov>; Austin Mayor Steve Adler <steve.adler@austintexas.gov>; Gina Hinojosa <gina.hinojosa@house.texas.gov>; Rey Arellano <rey.arellano@austintexas.gov>; spencer.cronk@austintexas.gov <spencer.cronk@austintexas.gov>; Dayna Blazey <dayna.blazey@traviscountytx.gov>; Austin City Council Member Ann Kitchen (2016) <district5@austintexas.gov>; The University of Texas at Austin <president@utexas.edu>; michael@dell.com <michael@dell.com>; District 8 <district8@austintexas.gov>; Don Zimmerman District 6 Northwest Austin <district6@austintexas.gov>; Kirk Watson <kirk.watson@senate.texas.gov>; AARP Inc <aarp@email.aarp.org>; Travis County Judge Sarah Eckhardt <sarah.eckhardt@traviscountytx.gov> Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2019, 12:03:16 AM CDT Subject: 4-16-19 ideas and info for your commission Dear Austin Commission on Seniors Staff Members, I would also like to share with your very influential advisory commission some online links that might prove to be helpful:http://www.betterworld.net/quotes/senior-citizen-quotes.htmThis link offers an abundance of insightful and memorable quotations about senior citizens. My hope is that with permission from the editor or publisher of the above online webpage, Senior Citizen Centers in Austin could permanently display on their walls several or many of these fine quotes, along with portraits of the authors of those quotes. One of the better quotes from that webpage comes from Benjamin Franklin: "Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young." Another link that might be of keen interest to your advisory commission is to a website for the Institute for Dementia Research and Prevention at the Pennington Biomedical Research Center of the Louisiana State University System in Baton Rouge, with that institute's phone number being (225) 763-2973:https://idrp.pbrc.edu/information/faqs/ It is very likely (and I haven't found the time yet to research this online) that the UT-Austin Dell Medical School will be conducting or has conducted medical research that is especially helpful to senior citizens in this state-capital city. Any such research findings could then be presented at a very inspirational symposium or workshop here in Austin that's possibly co-sponsored by your Austin Commission on Seniors. I would also like to share with you a very impressive statement I found online from then-Precinct-3-Constable Sally Hernandez (herself currently the Travis County Sheriff), as quoted in the "Oak Hill Gazette" of August 18, 2016: "With over 34 years of law enforcement experience, I can tell you the two areas of crime that anger me the most are crimes against children and crimes against our senior citizens." I would like to respectfully recommend that your commission consider inviting Sheriff Hernandez to give a speech before your advisory board inside City Hall. In that speech, Sheriff Hernandez could offer your commission public-policy recommendations on how the City Government of Austin could do more to deter and investigate violent crimes and other crimes that victimize senior citizens here. I am also hopeful that your advisory commission will consider inviting a speech before your group by an expert on state and federal laws that protect senior citizens in Austin from being victimized by various forms of elder abuse, including sexual abuse or physical abuse. The invited speaker could give a statement to your group on what the impact of anti-abuse state and federal laws have been on senior citizens here in Austin, and whether the City Government of Austin and residents of Austin could do more to comply in full with that law. I hope that this follow-up brainstorming letter is helpful to your Austin Commission on Seniors. Sincerely and Best Wishes, John Kevin McMillan,10926 Jollyville Rd., Apt. 1609, Austin, TX 78759.Home phone: (512) 342-2295 E-mail: mcmillanj@att.net