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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