"StarFuryG7"  wrote in message    
   news:b905a19c-c90c-43ab-adcc-a6cf4154f1d3@s9g2000vbg.googlegroups.com...   
   On Jul 27, 4:15 am, "Bruce Goatly"  wrote:   
      
   > And yet the moderators allowed the piece of vitriol above to show up. What   
   > does that say about your theory, I wonder?   
   > --   
   > Bruce   
      
   I'll tell you exactly what it 'says' about it: that either you know   
   how this groups functions on a technical level and are feigning   
   ignorance, or you simply don't know and need to be told. So regardless   
   of which it is, this thread hasn't been flagged for monitoring, so   
   unless a poster has been put on "hand moderation" they can post a   
   message to it and have it go through without a problem. That's how I   
   knew I could post here in this thread and that it would show up,   
   whereas creating a new thread doesn't automatically work that way   
   necessarily. The one I alluded to went to a moderator for approval,   
   and just never appeared after that, which as I said, has occurred   
   over, and over, and over again through the years here. And it can't be   
   chalked up to Google Groups, because I've posted threads here under a   
   multitude of different methods here through the years, and have seen   
   it happen time and time again. So the posts not showing up is   
   purposeful on the part of someone. It's the only logical conclusion   
   that can be drawn after years and years of the same   
   Actually, no, it's not the only logical conclusion that can be drawn. There    
   have been problems with starting new threads due to some glich in the server    
   that handles the moderation . Some of the most respected members of this    
   newsgroup have had problems with this, because the message never gets to the    
   server somehow. There have been some server hang problems in the past as    
   well, from what I've gathered, so it well may be that these two things have    
   kept messages from going through, not intentional moderation of your    
   postings. For a while there only postings sent on an existing thread got    
   through, so folks were changing titles and such to get their messages    
   through. I've had a couple go into the bit bucket when I sent new messages    
   but they made it when replying to a thread and just changing the title.   
   So there is another logical answer to this besides some sort of censorship.    
   As far as I know, only inflamatory messages and story ideas get moderated,    
   and EVERY message goes through moderation, with the possible exception of    
   those sent by moderators.   
   Of course I could be wrong about that last bit, but it's the impression I"ve    
   gotten based on watching message flow.   
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