On Nov 9, 10:56 am, Doug Freyburger  wrote:
>
> On occasion the group goes silent. =A0At some point a post makes it
> through and the backlog gets posted. =A0I have sent email offlgroup to on=
e
> of the moderators on at least one such occasion. =A0So far I've never sen=
t
> 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. =A0That shows in
> the headers of the messages he has cited. =A0And 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.

If that's the case, then who was it that decided to stir the pot again
by posting a message to this thread last month, which was a reply to
me, two and a half months after the thread had fallen dormant back in
July?

Ya see, this is one of the problems that I also have with this
newsgroup frankly. People always go out of their way to defend the
actions of the moderators while overlooking their transgressions, only
in this case, you're a moderator too.

But if I've been nothing more than a nuisance here as you claim, then
why was it that he couldn't just let sleeping dogs lay (I'd say "lie,"
but I don't want to be accused of some kind of Freudian slip, so it's
a conscious choice)?

> I'd have put him on hand moderation long ago and
> taken up rejecting such complaints as not based in fact. =A0There has bee=
n
> attempt after attempt at pointing him to his email problems and none of
> it has sunk in. =A0At 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. =A0He'd have gotten a better email system long ago otherwise.

There's nothing wrong with my email. I no longer receive such
notifications by choice. I shut down that feature in my preferences
more than five years ago after being ambushed similarly here, though
on a considerably larger scale.

>
> 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 -

Hey, that's nothing new here, I've got news for you. I've been
accustomed to that attitude for years anyway at this point, which is
all the more reason I haven't felt particularly inclined to be "Mr.
Nice Guy" regardless of how people choose to take it. I simply reached
that point some time ago and 'don't care' myself anymore.
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