Your membership is pending

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."

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.)
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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

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

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.


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