Rant about Yahoo Discussion List Errors

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Today I did something I've done many times before -- started a Yahoo email discussion list. I must belong to 15 such groups and I own or moderate at least five of them. I've never had a problem until today. The purpose of this private group is to talk about starting a new blogging site, preferably using self-hosted Wordpress. There are three of us on the committee so far + our organization president. Our organization has at least five other Yahoo groups. So, I start the group and invite the other three people to join it. As soon as they signed on, I sent the first test post. Not wanting to waste it, I also addressed one of the questions a committee member had asked before we started the group. At that time we were sending CCs and replying to all. It was cumbersome. Mind you, all I talked about in that first post was the advantages of self hosting vs. the disadvantages of free hosting, and I mentioned a site I was happy with as host where I had just started a new blog. One committee member answered the test message. Then I got a message from Yahoo saying my message (which had been answered) could not be delivered because "Your email was not delivered due to a suspected guidelines violation. Please visit http://groups.yahoo.com/local/guidelines.html If you feel you've gotten this email in error please visit the following link for more information http://help.yahoo.com/kb/index?locale=en_US&page=content&y=PROD_ACCT&id=SLN3263" The guidelines indicated I couldn't spam and I couldn't post adult content -- neither of which I'd done, unless I made a typo somewhere. I simply couldn't see where I had violated one of the guidelines, so I followed the second link. When I got there, it said that page was no longer available. I tried a contact button where they make you categorize your question, but my question was outside all their categories. I am one frustrated person. They threaten to delete my account if I violate their guidelines repeatedly, but there seems to be know way to find out just what was so objectionable in the post. By the time I'd given up finding help on the Yahoo site, I got another notification that my second post had bounced for the same reason. It had been a short email in which we only discussed the name of the domain we wanted to register. It's about a book co-op. The .com name is already in use, so I know there should be no objection to that. I am extremely puzzled, and I don't know how to appeal this. I had originally wanted to make this a Google group, but one of our committee members doesn't like Google groups. So I was trying to be accommodating. I just don't have this kind of time to waste on something that should be simple -- something I've done many times before without a problem. Any similar experiences? Advice?