Hello

I have tried to post twice to UK Legal Moderated regarding an
important issue affecting UK residents.
My posts have not shown up on group and I have not been informed that
my post has been rejected?

What do I do, who are the moderators and how to I make representations
to them or do I go to Google first?

Thanks

Mike

UKQRM

> I have tried to post twice to UK Legal Moderated regarding an
> important issue affecting UK residents.
> My posts have not shown up on group and I have not been informed that
> my post has been rejected?
>
> What do I do, who are the moderators and how to I make representations
> to them or do I go to Google first?

It's not necessarily a problem with the group. I've found the only
reliable way for my posts to reach moderation is to post them through
my gmail account. Both Freeserve and Virgin news servers fail about
50% of the time.

Of course, once they are in the moderation queue, they may still fail
if the content is not appropriate...  :)

Mike wrote:
> Hello
>
> I have tried to post twice to UK Legal Moderated regarding an
> important issue affecting UK residents.
> My posts have not shown up on group and I have not been informed that
> my post has been rejected?
>
> What do I do, who are the moderators and how to I make representations
> to them or do I go to Google first?

Hi Mike -

It's not uncommon for posts to fail to reach the moderation system, due to 
poorly configured servers at your ISP.   We've also had a recent crash with 
the moderation server, which probably took out a few posts.

Start by checking to see if your posts are listed at 
http://www.moderation.org.uk/3display_history.php .

- If they're not there, they didn't arrive.  You'll need to talk to your 
ISP/mail service about that, or open a news-individual.net a/c if you want a 
quick, simple solution.

- If they are there but were rejected, then identify which specific ones 
they were and we'll try to find out why.

(FYI, Google has nothing to do with the administration of this group.   It's 
an autonomous collective, managed by a small group of moderators acting 
under a charter of approval voted upon by interested usenet users)

Good luck with the problem-solving, we always welcome new posters here.

On Mon,  1 Sep 2008 20:15:06 +0100, Mike wrote...
> Hello
> 
> I have tried to post twice to UK Legal Moderated regarding an
> important issue affecting UK residents.
> My posts have not shown up on group and I have not been informed that
> my post has been rejected?
> 
> What do I do, who are the moderators and how to I make representations
> to them or do I go to Google first?

I'm not a moderator, but I'd hazard a guess that your post yesterday was 
a casualty of the technical failure announced in the post "News 
Failure" by Anthony R. Gold.  There's more discussion in 
uk.net.news.moderation.

Your post this morning has appeared, but the posting history at 
http://www.moderation.org.uk/ shows that it took over 13 hours before a 
moderator was available to deal with it.  If you study the posting 
history you'll see that such a delay is not untypical.  The moderators 
are unpaid volunteers and unfortunately they are not always around.

-- 
Tim Jackson
news@timjackson.plus.invalid
(Change '.invalid' to '.com' to reply direct)

"Mike"  wrote in message 
news:9a253410-c904-449a-9f6b-ca1c8ac1d100@m36g2000hse.googlegroups.com...

> My posts have not shown up on group and I have not been informed that
> my post has been rejected?
>

Congratulations on being successful this time.

Have a look on www.moderation.org.uk for your other posts. Occasionally, 
they just disappear - possibly a sacrifice to the Ethernet God.

On 2 Sep, 00:35, "GB"  wrote:
> "Mike"  wrote in message
>
> news:9a253410-c904-449a-9f6b-ca1c8ac1d100@m36g2000hse.googlegroups.com...
>
> > My posts have not shown up on group and I have not been informed that
> > my post has been rejected?
>
> Congratulations on being successful this time.
>
> Have a look onwww.moderation.org.ukfor your other posts. Occasionally,
> they just disappear - possibly a sacrifice to the Ethernet God.

Ah OK thanks for all the help and suggestions!
It was the not knowing that was getting to me LOL

Back to business

Mike

In message 
, 
Mike UKQRM  writes
>On 2 Sep, 00:35, "GB"  wrote:
>> "Mike"  wrote in message
>>
>> news:9a253410-c904-449a-9f6b-ca1c8ac1d100@m36g2000hse.googlegroups.com...
>>
>> > My posts have not shown up on group and I have not been informed that
>> > my post has been rejected?
>>
>> Congratulations on being successful this time.
>>
>> Have a look onwww.moderation.org.ukfor your other posts. Occasionally,
>> they just disappear - possibly a sacrifice to the Ethernet God.
>
>Ah OK thanks for all the help and suggestions!
>It was the not knowing that was getting to me LOL
>
>Back to business
>
>Mike
>
I regularly look at the Posting History and the Moderator Rejected 
Posts. It's interesting to see who are the stern moderators and the 
naughty boy posters!
-- 
Ian

"Ian Jackson"  wrote in message 
news:uTC5f2DHTVvIFwW4@g3ohx.demon.co.uk...
> In message 
> , Mike 
> UKQRM  writes
>>On 2 Sep, 00:35, "GB"  wrote:
>>> "Mike"  wrote in message
>>>
>>> news:9a253410-c904-449a-9f6b-ca1c8ac1d100@m36g2000hse.googlegroups.com...
>>>
>>> > My posts have not shown up on group and I have not been informed that
>>> > my post has been rejected?
>>>
>>> Congratulations on being successful this time.
>>>
>>> Have a look onwww.moderation.org.ukfor your other posts. Occasionally,
>>> they just disappear - possibly a sacrifice to the Ethernet God.
>>
>>Ah OK thanks for all the help and suggestions!
>>It was the not knowing that was getting to me LOL
>>
>>Back to business
>>
>>Mike
>>
> I regularly look at the Posting History and the Moderator Rejected Posts. 
> It's interesting to see who are the stern moderators and the naughty boy 
> posters!

Hardly anything gets rejected, really.

There are currently a number of rejected posts on the pile that shouldn't 
really be there - spam with adverts for sexual services should really be 
rejected as "spam" (whereby they vaporise and don't appear on the pile) 
rather than as "advertising in furtherance of a commercial enterprise" which 
is geared more towards advertising of a different nature.