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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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 russell@birding-aus.org http://birding-aus.org
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Gooday all
Yep I support Merrilyns thanks to the moderators, great job.
Greg little
I heartily agree, Merrilyn. They are an exceptional team.
Carl Clifford
Many thanks to the moderating team (Russell, Paul, Peter, Karen and Bill) for the job you do for birding-aus. It is fantastic to have no spam. Hope you all manage to fit in enough time to do your own birding between moderating sessions. Cheers, Merrilyn
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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
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
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