Jan wrote:
> StarFuryG7 wrote:
>
>> Would you mind if I inquired as to how frequently?
>
> Sometimes *quite* frequently.  At one point a year or so ago maybe one
> in three or four of my posts were actually getting through because
> Google groups got glitchy as hell. Didn't matter if it was a new thread
> or old one and it had nothing to do with the moderating software or
> process, it was entirely Google.   

On occasion the group goes silent.  At some point a post makes it
through and the backlog gets posted.  I have sent email offlgroup to one
of the moderators on at least one such occasion.  So far I've never sent
an email to the official administrator contact for the group @isc.net. 
I take it StarFury's question is not about those cases.

What StarFury has complained about is messages that got stuck in email
for a week before even arriving in the moderation queue.  That shows in
the headers of the messages he has cited.  And thus an email problem
not a moderation problem. It's like complaining that the Moon is New
on a dark night when I should be calling the street light folks.
Because of this in the nature of his complaints I've considered them
pointless bickering. I'd have put him on hand moderation long ago and
taken up rejecting such complaints as not based in fact.  There has been
attempt after attempt at pointing him to his email problems and none of
it has sunk in.  At this point I have concluded he doesn't want to deal
with that because he wants to complain more than he wants to solve any
problem.  He'd have gotten a better email system long ago otherwise.

I see around 1 in 10 of my messages get dropped.  I generally don't care
as long as most of them go through.  As long as most of them do it's not
worth my digging through my sent list to find the ones that did not make
it.

> When a post is rejected, an email goes out to the poster.  As I was
> once going to be a moderator, I see those notes when they go out. 
> Sometimes they're for duplicate posts, sometimes they're for spam and
> sometimes they're for story ideas but when a moderator rejects a post
> an email goes out with the reason. 

A lot of posters report they have registered using a throw away account
so they don't get such rejections.  That's the price.  It's been years
since I got a message rejected but it has happened when I responded late
to a blocked thread.  Because I see the rejections I know what posts
have been rejected.  Lacking a rejection or seeing it in the post in the
group I know it got stuck/lost in email.  Yet another reason why the
more complaints I see by StarFury the less I care - He should check for
rejection notices in his email.  No rejection means it has not made it
to the moderators so it's his issue not theirs.
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