hating on gmail

So I've been working off and on trying to get my wireless working on sid,
and there were some helpful replies the first time I  posted to debian-user
that steered me towards possible solutions.   Last night I wanted to post my
progress and a request for more help, and since I'd used this gmail account
to post the initial message, I thought I'd try to use groups.google.com to
actually attach my response to the bottom of the thread (rather than
starting a new one).  Probably I shouldn't be surprised by the result:


fromModeration Robot <[email protected]>[email protected],
dateFri, Apr 18, 2008 at 9:50 PMsubjectRe: Re: intel 3945 wirelessmailed-by
attila.bofh.it
hide details 9:50 PM (10 hours ago)
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Virtually your,
The Moderation Robot.


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I can understand (in principle) why I'm getting this message (though the
fact that the debian-user list which this newsgroup is gatewayed to is
completely unmoderated means it doesn't really make a lot of sense in
practice).  But what really annoys me is that I now appear to have lost the
content that I composed last night (which I suppose is my fault for not
pasting it somewhere to save it "just in case" before sending).  There's no
copy in my gmail "sent mail" folder, (presumably because I posted through
the groups.google.com web interface) and the "first few lines" (that I
snipped above) includes mostly the full headers and only the first couple
lines (and none of the technical detail that I'd assembled).  Upon receipt
of the message, I did follow the instructions (and try to subscribe to the
gateway deal), but I'm thinking that the chances of my previously sent
message being resurrected after I successfully subscribe are probably slim
to none.   And yeah, I know that if I'd expended the effort this morning to
recompile my technical information, it probably would have taken less time
than composing this message, but I still wanted to rant somewhere first.
Thanks for listening :-]

      ~e