Thanks for the kind words, and a special thanks to Bill who is doing most
of the moderating at the moment, because Paul is looking for grasswrens,
amongst other things, and I've been unable to access my email at times
lately.
A further explanation about moderating messages. All new subscribers are
automatically moderated, including those who unsubscribe and resubscribe.
When we see bounced messages that SHOULD be getting to the list, we can
unmoderate the sender. Sometimes we forget to do this. A few weeks ago I
inadvertently set EVERYONE to moderated status. Whilst that only took one
click, everyone has to be reset individually, and if I am not sure of the
email address, I'm reluctant to turn off moderation. We do occasionally
get people subscribing just to send spam - there was one case this week. I
think it is preferable to have occasional delays than to suffer bogus
investment emails from rogue subscribers. Things should gradually return
to normal as we turn off moderation for Those Who Should Not Be Moderated
:-)
And, yes, email is an old technology that sometimes doesn't work as we
expect it to.
Regards
Russell Woodford
Birding-Aus List Owner
http://birding-aus.org
> It is also "just-one-of-those-things" with emails. I have had email
> take over 36 hrs (37 hrs 47 min and some seconds) to go from one side
> of the office to the other. I reckon it is web sprites, the 2nd
> millennium's version of the Kobold.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Carl Clifford
>
>
> On 28/08/2010, at 12:50 PM, Bill Stent wrote:
>
> David
>
> The reason for the delay in posting, followed by both posts being sent
> within a minute or so, was that the posts had been held for
> moderation. None of the moderators was available until this morning
> (one of them chasing birds in Central Australia, not that I'm
> jealous...), so your messages were held in a queue. I considered
> passing only the second one, but I wasn't really sure if the two
> messages were identical.
>
> My apologies for the slow service, but this is part of life on Biding-
> Aus. The upside is that nearly no spam gets through, also because of
> the humans who pass or kill messages manually.
>
> Bill
>
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> From: "david taylor" <>
> Sent: Saturday, August 28, 2010 11:28 AM
> To: "Birding-Aus Aus" <>
> Subject: [Birding-Aus] Delay when sending to birding-aus
>
>>
>> I noted with interest Bob Inglis comment that he had sent the same
>> message twice to birding-aus as the first one appeared to have been
>> lost in cyber space. You may have noticed that I too have sent the
>> same message twice ( regarding flying-foxes) - sent yesterday
>> afternoon and suddenly appears on the forum today after i had sent
>> it again - my apologies for the duplication. It raises though an
>> issue that I find happens very often ( not always) when I post to
>> birding-aus - that there is either a long delay or sometimes the
>> post never appears. I wonder why this is, as I dont ever appear to
>> have these time lags with other email addresses/forums.
>>
>> Anyway in future I will resist the temptation to resend for at least
>> 24 hours, as frustrating as this might be.
>>
>> Does any forum member or administrator know why such a delay would
>> occur when posting to birding-aus?
>>
>> cheers
>>
>>
>> David Taylor
>> Brisbane
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> PS - I wonder how long this post will take to arrive
>>
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