RE: replacing fossil fuels

At 10:58 AM Sunday 7/4/2010, Julia wrote:
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>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: brin-l-bounces-r0TUnz/JSrZWk0Htik3J/[email protected] [mailto:brin-l-bounces-r0TUnz/JSrZWk0Htik3J/[email protected]] On
>Behalf Of Keith Henson
>Sent: Sunday, July 04, 2010 8:40 AM
>To: brin-l-r0TUnz/JSrZWk0Htik3J/[email protected]
>Subject: RE: replacing fossil fuels
>
>On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 11:00 AM,   "Dan Minette" <[email protected]> wrote:
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: brin-l-bounces-r0TUnz/JSrZWk0Htik3J/[email protected] [mailto:brin-l-bounces-r0TUnz/JSrZWk0Htik3J/[email protected]]
> > On Behalf Of Keith Henson
> > Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2010 3:09 PM
>
>Wonder where this hung out for over two weeks before making it into a
>posting?
>
>Keith
>
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>Short version:  It was in a moderation queue.
>
>Long version:  There are 3 moderators, for some reason I seem to be the only
>one who checks for posts awaiting moderation (or it's that way most of the
>time), this computer has been having issues (and needing replacement, and
>there is a machine to replace it, but getting it set up will take time I
>haven't had yet for 2 months now), and things even more hectic than usual
>for those 2 weeks.  Also, the software has changed since I first started
>doing moderation on a Nick-run system, and it's not as easy to automatically
>clear someone's "moderate" flag, plus it used to be they'd clear themselves
>after a certain period of time or a certain number of posts, which hasn't
>been happening for more than a year, so the system is creating more work for
>the moderator(s) than it did 3 years ago.
>
>Keith's moderation flag has been cleared now.  If at any point, you're aware
>of a post you've made and it hasn't shown up for a couple of days, if you
>send me e-mail at [email protected], I'll know I ought to be logging on
>from whatever system I have access to ASAP to check on that.  (I can
>*usually* manage 5 minutes a day at that address to look at anything
>extremely critical.  I think there were 2 days in the past 3 weeks I wasn't
>even able to do *that*, though.)



Does this list get messages from obvious spambots attempting to join 
and post spam as often as some of the other lists I co-moderate 
do?  If it does, it's no wonder when a real message from a real list 
member gets held up from time to time (even when the real list member 
is not the list owner who somehow accidentally revoked his own right 
to post to the list . . . no, I'm not referring to myself . . .)

And it doesn't help when the moderators are in different parts of the 
world in different time zones and for whatever reason need to confer 
before making a decision (sometimes frex spambots can be quite 
clever, though others can be so obvious it's a wonder their creators 
think anyone would fall for them).

(I thought about snipping the "long version" above, but then thought 
again that it seemed relevant enough to leave . . . )



>(The short version of what happened during that time, that I gave to various
>people for various reasons, was "I fell off the internet."  And a point at
>which I expected to do some catch-up, it turned out that I didn't have the
>internet access I'd anticipated I would.)
>
>         Julia



Glad to see you're back, anyway!


. . . ronn!  :)