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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