Dear Friend, This letter might come to you as a surprise since we have not had any previous correspondence nor met. This is as a result of the helpless...
COLLINS WILLIAMS
collinswilliams@...
Aug 5, 2004 12:59 am
306
I just had a message from Sue Deschene saying she wasn't able to post. She'd tried first from a spamblock address and then switched to a "real" address. Even...
... I'm not a moderator, but I see I'm still subscribed to this list, so here's a related problem. The background is that I hadn't been able to post, but for...
... <snip> Yup, and thanks so much for your help, Sal! I don't know what the time lag is between sending a post and it appearing in the newsgroup, but I tried...
Sue Deschene
RDeschene@...
Aug 13, 2004 12:20 pm
309
I've done a little poking around and I don't think the problem is necessarily with the bot. Sue, your post of yesterday didn't show up at the bot; the...
... The only ... <snip> Ah, you know what? A memory is slowly floating to the surface. I post to another moderated newsgroup, but very rarely. For a while (and...
Sue Deschene
RDeschene@...
Aug 13, 2004 2:01 pm
312
Yes, Sue, doing it like that should work. The address of choice is misc-writing-moderated@... since if the physical address that the bot lives...
... updatd to ... John, for some reason, the e-mail addresses you're posting are showing up here in truncated form, with ellipses at the end. I'll see if I can...
Sue Deschene
RDeschene@...
Aug 13, 2004 4:15 pm
314
... I believe Yahoo! truncates the e-addrs when it sends it through its interface ... I see the truncated e-addrs now because I'm using the Yahoo! interface. ...
... Update: Thanks to Sal, I was able to e-mail my posting at 12:22 p.m. EST. I'm still not seeing it on the newsgroup, and I haven't received any kind of...
Sue Deschene
RDeschene@...
Aug 13, 2004 6:10 pm
316
I haven't tried to post anything today., so don't know if I can or not. However, I thought I would add a note to the discussion as follows: I just checked the...
Update: I never could get my posting to go through. Finally I just gave up. I'd like to post in the "writer's block" thread, but I'm reluctant to do so until...
Sue Deschene
RDeschene@...
Sep 22, 2004 3:24 pm
318
Sue, It's not just me having problems then? What I did yesterday to get mine to go through was add amicus to the end of the subject line on the second one. ...
Kathy, your first post was received by the modbot a minute and a half after you sent it and passed. It looks as though something slowed down its propagation...
... <snip> ... posting ... whether ... you'll be ... I'll be posting under: rdeschene@... Do I need to add amicus to the end of the subject line? ...
Sue Deschene
RDeschene@...
Sep 22, 2004 6:49 pm
321
... On a different mysterious note, I get my Yahoo! mwm messages forwarded to my e-mail account, where on receipt they are automagically stashed in my mwm...
... <snip> ... about ... June, ... This sounds like exactly what I went through with another moderated newsgroup. I could post for a time using the regular...
Sue Deschene
RDeschene@...
Sep 23, 2004 12:47 am
325
... What is "the regular way" for you, and what is "via email"? I post to various newsgroups via Outlook Express, which I think of as being like email except...
Lois, your address below is already in the database. Can you try four test posts: 1) post to the group starting a new thread 2) reply to the group in an...
... showed up. ... you're ... Well, I'm not well-versed in the terminology, so hopefully this will make sense. I hit "Reply" to a post via my browser's...
Sue Deschene
RDeschene@...
Sep 23, 2004 2:57 pm
328
... I just did 1) and 2), and both posts appeared (!!), so I didn't continue down the list. Interesting. I've tried a couple of times since June, the last time...
... So far, it's the same for me. ... Interesting. What is the group's email address? How does a newsgroup get an email address? Can this system work for most...
You may have already discussed this, but have you thought about setting up the option to post via a website? Some of us are working on this option for another...
... Oh yeah. Well, maybe you could have a "Terms & Conditions" page and people would have to click "I agree" to get to the posting page for the first time. Or...
