From: janmschroeder@aol.com   
      
   In article , ShadowTek says...   
   >   
   >Captain Infinity wrote:   
   >   
   >   
   >> A hundred bucks says you posted as ShadowTek@fake.email, which means the   
   >> acknowledgement email from the moderation software never reached you.   
   >   
   >I was never informed that I was required to publicly display my email   
   >address for all the spammers of the world to see.   
   >   
   >Anyway, I have no intentions of doing such a thing, so that group is not   
   >for me, or anyone else who detests spam as much as I.   
      
   To expand a bit on what Captain Infinity wrote, the first time you post to the   
   moderated newsgroup, you're sent an automated email with the terms of use (no   
   story ideas, no flaming, etc.) that you're required to agree to and return.   
   Until that's done, your post won't even show up in the queue to be moderated.   
   Some people do use throw-away emails but it should be one that you check once   
   in   
   a while in case a moderator bounces a post for some reason.  After you agree to   
   the terms, any posts you've sent should enter the queue and the moderator can   
   pass them.  Your first 20-something posts will still be hand moderated but   
   after   
   that they should post automatically except for new threads which are always   
   hand   
   moderated.  These days Amy is the most active moderator and she moderates at   
   least two or three times a day so there are fewer issues with posting delays.   
      
   As for your post being 'filtered', from what I've read over the years, a   
   moderator cannot 'bounce' a post without assigning a reason and an email is   
   automatically sent to the poster with that information.   
      
   As for spam...I don't think Usenet groups are a major target these days.  But,   
   to each his own.   
      
   Jan   
      
      
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