On Nov 16, 9:40=C2=A0am, Amy Guskin  wrote:
>
> Because I hadn't been moderating for *months*. "Months,"
which does inclu=
de
> late June, July, August, and early September, which qualify as summer her=
e in
> the northern hemisphere.

That qualifies as a Duh! Amy. I did say it was during the summer,
which apparently we're agreed upon as to when that occurs here in the
northern hemisphere.

> And incidentally, this is the first I'm hearing
> that it was summer. In the handful of posts I read, all I saw was complai=
nts
> about a post about Claudia that hadn't appeared. Didn't know *when* you w=
ere
> talking about, but it didn't *matter*. Why is this so hard to understand?

The time frame as to when the message was posted has been referenced
several times here in this thread.

> I know I've already said repeatedly on this thread that I was lax, I was
> shirking my duties because there never seemed to be any messages when I
> checked here,

Okay, whatever --you weren't/couldn't do your job, either because you
physically weren't up to it, were unable, or just didn't feel like it.
Fine. Got it.

>
> Nope, it isn't in the queue. When I was reading those first messages and
> replying to you, I hadn't moderated yet. And after I did, honestly, I jus=
t
> didn't think about it =E2=80=B9=C2=A0I was more concerned with assuring y=
ou that nobody is
> dumping your posts, which they aren't. =C2=A0So the post *never* appeared=
? What
> was it about =E2=80=B9=C2=A0the release of Claudia's book?

Yes, she handed out a several-page summary at to attendees at Comic
Con on the West Coast concerning some of the things the book would
cover.

>
> > "Purposely looking"? I see it as more casual and
cavalier than that
> > frankly. "Oh, there he is again." :::Dump::: <<
>
> I don't think that's even possible. As I've said repeatedly on this threa=
d,
> when we reject a post, the bounce generates an email that goes to you,
> telling you why we rejected the post. =C2=A0If there *is* a way of dumpin=
g a post
> without generating a reason, I do not know it.

I've never believed you to blame in that regard anyway.

> > One doesn't have to be particularly interested in me or my posts to be =
spiteful just for the sake of it. <<

>
> Yes, they do. Because if someone just enjoyed dumping posts which, again,=
 I don't think is possible =E2=80=B9=C2=A0why are you seemingly the only pe=
rson suffering this fate? <

I don't know that I am.

> Everyone else who has had posts lost =E2=80=B9=C2=A0me included =E2=80=B9=
=C2=A0just sends them again and chalks it up to quirks in the system. <

Pretty hard to do if you haven't saved the text before clicking on
submit.

> People who have had
> repeated problems usually confer with Jay <

I went through my share of that in years past --lost cause.

> and sometimes it's found to be a
> problem with their ISP. Dunno. I don't =C2=A0handle the technical stuff. =
That's
> not the kind of programming I do. But I *do* know that you have to have a
> pretty inflated opinion of yourself to think that you're getting all of t=
his
> special attention from moderators who *barely have time to moderate*, muc=
h
> less play a stupid game with someone who only posts extremely sporadicall=
y.

I would think that if anything that would only make it easier for
someone paying attention, and it also has the benefit of serving as a
source of discouragement concerning future posting for the person
attempting to get his message through.

> >>> As someone pointed out earlier up the thread, if
> >> we bounce something it *automatically generates a reason and emails it=
 to
> >> you.* Automatically. So you'd know if you were bounced, assuming you c=
an
> >> receiving email from the modbot (which I think you have to in order to=
 be
> >> registered in the newsgroup).
>
> > Thank yourselves for my having pulled the plug on that year's ago -- an=
d posts not appearing with no such notifications predated my having changed=
 my mail settings. <

>
> Can't parse the first part =E2=80=B9 pulled the plug on *what*?

Receiving system notifications from the newsgroup, including those
that might be sent by a moderator.

> and there is no
> apostrophe in "years ago" =E2=80=B9

You're going to nitpick a clumsy keystroke?

:::Sigh:::

>
> >>> She owed me an apology five years ago --at least one, and
I never got=
 it.

>
> Sorry, dude, no idea =E2=80=B9=C2=A0and I even spent about ten minutes ye=
sterday searching around in the archives, but couldn't find any conversatio=
ns between you and I in that time period, and got bored and gave up. <

LMAO - even if your memory is that poor, it's there, and while finding
it would probably require reading through a significant number of
posts, the general location shouldn't be at all difficult to find.

>
> I don't suppose you will ever believe it, but you are *not* being targete=
d,
> and if posts are going missing, it's a technical problem. If you still wa=
nt
> to post about Claudia, I'd suggest trying again

Four months later or so?

No thanks ...it's certainly not worthy the bother after all this time.
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