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I used to be able to post on several newsgroups, but I can no longer.
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J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
In message , writes: I used to be able to post on several newsgroups, but I can no longer. There is no New Topic button? It says "Your membership is pending." I see "User-Agent: G2/1.0" in your headers, so I presume you're posting via a webpage (Google Groups I guess). I don't know much about GG membership - it seems odd if you can post at all but not start new topics - but I suspect it's to do with them, not Windows XP. (It's possible they've broken their system so it won't work with your XP browser.) "Pending Member" implies "Moderated Group", and likely a group that only exists within Google Groups and not USENET. Google Groups has groups of its own, a zillion of them, and I presume some of those are moderated. If a moderator sends an "Invite" to someone, that person is a "Pending Member" until the moderator approves them or the like. It has something to do with a situation like that. https://sites.google.com/a/uah.edu/g...#PendingMember USENET has moderated groups too, but the moderation is applied to "messages" and not "members" in the same way. As a USENET moderator, I could examine a message by Sender only and reject it (based on perhaps a barrage of garbage from the person). Some groups which are actually private hierarchies, use automoderation (your messages are allowed until you step out of line, then each message is examined after that). I don't know if automoderation is applied to Big-8 moderated groups. But that's the sort of thing USENET does, is moderate at the message level. Ultimately, every message "could" be examined for contentm, but the automoderation method is a "light touch" intended to reduce the workload of a limited set of moderators (the 24-hour problem). The OP could carefully consider what category the groups are, whether a mod of a "Google-only" group has banned them, or something similar. You would hope a GoogleGroup with moderation, would have a contact point, but who really knows, as Google doesn't exactly have "Customer Service". They're the "automat of the Internet", converting every process into "self help" so that zero staff are required. Paul |
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On Wednesday, March 13, 2019 at 1:18:42 PM UTC-5, Paul wrote:
J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote: In message , writes: I used to be able to post on several newsgroups, but I can no longer. There is no New Topic button? It says "Your membership is pending." I see "User-Agent: G2/1.0" in your headers, so I presume you're posting via a webpage (Google Groups I guess). I don't know much about GG membership - it seems odd if you can post at all but not start new topics - but I suspect it's to do with them, not Windows XP. (It's possible they've broken their system so it won't work with your XP browser.) "Pending Member" implies "Moderated Group", and likely a group that only exists within Google Groups and not USENET. Google Groups has groups of its own, a zillion of them, and I presume some of those are moderated. If a moderator sends an "Invite" to someone, that person is a "Pending Member" until the moderator approves them or the like. It has something to do with a situation like that. https://sites.google.com/a/uah.edu/g...#PendingMember USENET has moderated groups too, but the moderation is applied to "messages" and not "members" in the same way. As a USENET moderator, I could examine a message by Sender only and reject it (based on perhaps a barrage of garbage from the person). Some groups which are actually private hierarchies, use automoderation (your messages are allowed until you step out of line, then each message is examined after that). I don't know if automoderation is applied to Big-8 moderated groups. But that's the sort of thing USENET does, is moderate at the message level. Ultimately, every message "could" be examined for contentm, but the automoderation method is a "light touch" intended to reduce the workload of a limited set of moderators (the 24-hour problem). The OP could carefully consider what category the groups are, whether a mod of a "Google-only" group has banned them, or something similar. You would hope a GoogleGroup with moderation, would have a contact point, but who really knows, as Google doesn't exactly have "Customer Service". They're the "automat of the Internet", converting every process into "self help" so that zero staff are required. Paul I found out that I had 2 newsgroup accounts with separate emails. I deleted the acct that wasn't let me post in some groups. I am now good to go. :-) Andy |
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On Wed, 13 Mar 2019 07:10:10 -0700 (PDT),
wrote: I used to be able to post on several newsgroups, but I can no longer. There is no New Topic button? It says "Your membership is pending." It could be a moderated grou. Some moderated groups have been abandoned by their moderators, so your membership will pend forever if it is one of those. -- Steve Hayes http://www.khanya.org.za/stevesig.htm http://khanya.wordpress.com |
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