Re: "Can't find nnnn" messages in my Held Mail

Jeff G. wrote:
> No new development is being done to the VER page at
> http://mailsc.spamcop.net/reportheld?action=heldlog - it's only more
> useful than Webmail for viewing from email addresses and for queueing
> for reporting, and that link was supposed to have been changed.
> Please see the following URLs for details:
>
http://forum.spamcop.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=40&view=findpost&p=410
>
http://forum.spamcop.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=762&view=findpost&p=4702
>
http://forum.spamcop.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=2787&view=findpost&p=19381
> http://forum.spamcop.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=3419

I disagree that there should only be a one-way communication between the
newgroups and the forum.

It seems to me that the only information transferring around here is
people, eg Jeff G,  from the forum telling people in the newsgroups to
go to the forums.  Or, stated another way, it appears to me that
Sacagawea is working for the British instead of for the settlers /or/
the Indians, or something like that.  What is going to come out of that
is going to be an adversareal relationship between the newsgroups and
the forums.

If that's the way it is going to be;  there should be no referrals from
the newsgroups to the forums for any information.  That is, there should
be no such referrals from anyone with any allegiance to newsgroups.

IMO referring people to the forums for any kind of information is not
good advice unless you think the newsgroups should go away.

Better advice would be to steer forum related questions which  /can/ be
answered in the newsgroups to the newsgroups.

Further, the same people who are answering questions in the forums
should be answering questions in the newsgroups instead of the forums.

The only time or reason that any question should be answered in the
forum instead of the newsgroups is when the person asking the question
is incompetent to be answered in the newsgroups.

The idea of steering newsgroup people who are capable of being answered
in the newsgroups to the forums is completely outawhack.



-- 
Mike Easter
kibitzer, not SC admin