Is it just me?

On May 7, 8:17 pm, "Greg D. Moore \(Strider\)"
wrote:
Pat Flannery wrote:
Or my killfiles...but is this newsgroup just about officially dead at
the moment?
Lurkers occasionally post something to it, but since they don't
regularly post, they leave it almost entirely to the nut-jobs and
Chinese shoe salesmen as the only consistent contributors.
If you enjoy reading the posts to it, you might want to consider
writing some to it also; otherwise, it's just going to croak and you
won't even be able to read it.

They're mostly dead.

I can't recall the last post that has passed moderation in sci.space.science
and very few recently that have passed moderation on sci.space.tech.
Greg Moore

A lot of moderated groups use old Baby Boomers as moderators with
a sense that science ended in the 1960's, fortunately exceptions
prevail.
sci.space.tech died with the constellation program cancellation.
But I generally agree, you're right.
Ken

On May 14, 8:07*pm, Fred J. McCall wrote:
"Ken S. Tucker" wrote:

On May 7, 8:17 pm, "Greg D. Moore \(Strider\)"
wrote:

I can't recall the last post that has passed moderation in sci.space.science
and very few recently that have passed moderation on sci.space.tech.
Greg Moore

A lot of moderated groups use old Baby Boomers as moderators with
a sense that science ended in the 1960's, fortunately exceptions
prevail.
sci.space.tech died with the constellation program cancellation.
But I generally agree, you're right.

I tried to post a reply to sci.space.tech and it just vanished. *Never
appeared and nothing to tell me that it got bounced or why...

--
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable
*man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore,
*all progress depends on the unreasonable man."
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * --George Bernard Shaw

Obviously you're on their NO FLY list, as are the other 99.9% of us.

~ BG

On May 14, 11:10*am, "Ken S. Tucker" wrote:
On May 7, 8:17 pm, "Greg D. Moore \(Strider\)"



wrote:
Pat Flannery wrote:
Or my killfiles...but is this newsgroup just about officially dead at
the moment?
Lurkers occasionally post something to it, but since they don't
regularly post, they leave it almost entirely to the nut-jobs and
Chinese shoe salesmen as the only consistent contributors.
If you enjoy reading the posts to it, you might want to consider
writing some to it also; otherwise, it's just going to croak and you
won't even be able to read it.

They're mostly dead.

I can't recall the last post that has passed moderation in sci.space.science
and very few recently that have passed moderation on sci.space.tech.
Greg Moore

A lot of moderated groups use old Baby Boomers as moderators with
a sense that science ended in the 1960's, fortunately exceptions
prevail.
sci.space.tech died with the constellation program cancellation.
But I generally agree, you're right.
Ken

Indiscriminate moderation that's mostly robo managed as highly biased
is the death of most any chat or newsgroup that thinks so highly of
itself.

~ BG

Fred J. McCall wrote:
"Ken S. Tucker" wrote:

On May 7, 8:17 pm, "Greg D. Moore \(Strider\)"
wrote:

I can't recall the last post that has passed moderation in
sci.space.science and very few recently that have passed moderation
on sci.space.tech.
Greg Moore


A lot of moderated groups use old Baby Boomers as moderators with
a sense that science ended in the 1960's, fortunately exceptions
prevail.
sci.space.tech died with the constellation program cancellation.
But I generally agree, you're right.


I tried to post a reply to sci.space.tech and it just vanished. Never
appeared and nothing to tell me that it got bounced or why...

Hmm, when was this? I don't recall seeing anything? Disturbing you didn't
get at least a bounce.

--
Greg Moore
Ask me about lily, an RPI based CMC.

Brad Guth wrote:
On May 14, 8:07 pm, Fred J. McCall wrote:
"Ken S. Tucker" wrote:

On May 7, 8:17 pm, "Greg D. Moore \(Strider\)"
wrote:

I can't recall the last post that has passed moderation in
sci.space.science and very few recently that have passed
moderation on sci.space.tech.
Greg Moore

A lot of moderated groups use old Baby Boomers as moderators with
a sense that science ended in the 1960's, fortunately exceptions
prevail.
sci.space.tech died with the constellation program cancellation.
But I generally agree, you're right.

I tried to post a reply to sci.space.tech and it just vanished. Never
appeared and nothing to tell me that it got bounced or why...

--
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable
man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore,
all progress depends on the unreasonable man."
--George Bernard Shaw

Obviously you're on their NO FLY list, as are the other 99.9% of us.

Hardly. There is no NO FLY list for sci.space.tech or sci.space.science
(despite the wishes of a few.)



~ BG

--
Greg Moore
Ask me about lily, an RPI based CMC.

Perhaps it's because, Brad, you are a total tosser.

Greg D. Moore (Strider) wrote:
Fred J. McCall wrote:

I tried almost the same article several times through two different
servers. Dates would have been 5/9, 5/11, and 5/12 (different
server).


Hmm, strange.

If you hadn't said different server I'd suspect that whatever NNTP server
you're using is still pointing to the old information from when George
Herbert was moderating. But two servers makes that less unlikely.

I can say this did not come through on our server. Had it, it would have
off course been permitted.

If you'd like I can cut/paste it with attribution to you and post it.


I had problems also. On May 11th I posted 3 replies to sci.space.tech,
the reply to J R Stockton sent at 20h25 (in this post, all times are
EDT) went through but my reply to David Spain sent the same day at 20h03
and my reply to Michael Turner sent at 20h38 did not get through and I
didn't get a message from the moderators telling me it was refused. I
will repost those replies in the next few minutes. If I am not successful
once more I will post them here in sci.space.policy, but I would prefer
having them in the moderated group.


Alain Fournier

Alain Fournier wrote:
Greg D. Moore (Strider) wrote:
Fred J. McCall wrote:

I tried almost the same article several times through two different
servers. Dates would have been 5/9, 5/11, and 5/12 (different
server).


Hmm, strange.

If you hadn't said different server I'd suspect that whatever NNTP
server you're using is still pointing to the old information from
when George Herbert was moderating. But two servers makes that less
unlikely. I can say this did not come through on our server. Had it, it
would
have off course been permitted.

If you'd like I can cut/paste it with attribution to you and post it.


I had problems also. On May 11th I posted 3 replies to sci.space.tech,
the reply to J R Stockton sent at 20h25 (in this post, all times are
EDT) went through but my reply to David Spain sent the same day at
20h03 and my reply to Michael Turner sent at 20h38 did not get
through and I didn't get a message from the moderators telling me it
was refused. I will repost those replies in the next few minutes. If
I am not successful once more I will post them here in
sci.space.policy, but I would prefer having them in the moderated
group.

Strange, if I get some time I will look into it.

If your posts ARE rejected, you should get an email and generally a commet
from one of the moderators. (unless it's VERY obviously spam in which case
there is no comment.)



Alain Fournier

--
Greg Moore
Ask me about lily, an RPI based CMC.

Greg D. Moore (Strider) wrote:
Alain Fournier wrote:

I had problems also. On May 11th I posted 3 replies to sci.space.tech,
the reply to J R Stockton sent at 20h25 (in this post, all times are
EDT) went through but my reply to David Spain sent the same day at
20h03 and my reply to Michael Turner sent at 20h38 did not get
through and I didn't get a message from the moderators telling me it
was refused. I will repost those replies in the next few minutes. If
I am not successful once more I will post them here in
sci.space.policy, but I would prefer having them in the moderated
group.


Strange, if I get some time I will look into it.

I would appreciate that.

If your posts ARE rejected, you should get an email and generally a commet
from one of the moderators. (unless it's VERY obviously spam in which case
there is no comment.)

I sent 5 posts tonight to sci.space.tech, they all went through. So at
least for tonight everything is fine.

Thanks to you and the other moderators for your work. I find moderated
groups much more enjoyable than spammed groups.


Alain Fournier