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Another undesirable effect of crossposting....
I responded to yesterday's post by Geoff titled "hard solder 650 degree
C what do I need to melt this?" (To Geoff from Jeff G) A couple of hours later I looked at the thread and noticed that my reply wasn't up yet. My posts to rcm usually show up in a matter of minutes. I posted a copy of my original response with a "sorry if this is a dupe" disclaimer. Today I found out what happened. The OP had crossposted to 'rec.crafts.jewelry', and that's why my post didn't show up on rcm until half a day later. rec.crafts.jewelry is a "moderated group" and today I got a nice note from Peter Rowe, the moderator of that group, telling me: ************************************************** ******** Jeff, Rec.crafts.jewelry is a moderated group. That means that all postings get diverted by your (or any poster) ISP's news server, to their email server, which instead of posting it to the newsgroup, emails it to a moderated groups relay server, which then knows that I'm the moderator, and emails it to me. The post then sits there till I download new emailed messages for the group, remove the spam, commercial ads, and other inappropriate posts, and resend the ones that belong, to my news server with modified headers that then cause the news servers to accept the post. If the post is sent to a list of multiple newsgroups, then this is still the way it's handled if even one of the groups in the crosspost list (the newsgroups: header) is a moderated group. Only when the moderator of that moderated group has approved it, does the post then go to the news servers. And that, (sorry for the long winded description) is why you didn't see your first post show up quickly. There is a time delay in all this, that varies from a few minutes to as much as 24 hours, depending on when you post a message vs. when I next process new messages for the group. Normally I try to do it at least twice a day, but sometimes, it's only once a day... ************************************************** ********************** I bet I'm not the only one here who didn't know that would happen when responding to a crossposted message... Jeff -- Jeff Wisnia (W1BSV + Brass Rat '57 EE) "As long as there are final exams, there will be prayer in public schools" |
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