christian@geneva.rutgers.edu (10/22/90)
Today's posting is the first one under my new policy that tries to limit postings to 20 per day. Because there was still some backlog, I went a bit over 20, but I was a bit more selective about pruning things at the tail end of discussions and a couple of other things. For the moment I'm putting things I didn't put on hold rather than rejecting them, until I discover what the steady-state posting rate is. In the past I acknowledged things that I didn't post immediately, giving some indication of why they were inapprpriate. I haven't quite figured out how to do that, and it may be a week or so before I do. So for the next week or so you may not get a rejection letter if your posting is not published.
drew@anucsd.anu.oz.au (Drew Corrigan) (10/25/90)
Dear Moderator, I noticed that you had received and posted the article I sent to you yesterday, which was a reply to Gene Goss about annihilationism. The only problem is that the article arrived at this site with a "From" line as being from Gene Goss! He may be rather surprised at this. Perhaps you might like to post something to correct this. Also, I suppose I should have put my email address in my signature. It is drew@anucsd.anu.oz.au I apologise for any confusion I might have brought. I am not very familiar with dealing with moderated groups - all Australian groups are unmoderated - is there a correct procedure one should follow? Thanks. Drew Corrigan (drew@anucsd.anu.oz.au) [Wierd. I suspect my posting software got confused. The problem is that news posting software is very nonuniform. Quite commonly by the time I get postings, there are several sets of headers. The last set is almost always the real one. So my software simply strips the others. So if you begin a posting by including an entire message from someone else, with all of its headers, it might be possible to confuse the software. I think this is the first time it's actually caused a problem. Unfortunately I can't see any easy way to detect this case automatically, and headers get munged so often that it isn't practical for me to do them by hand. --clh]