To Moderator

There is no moderator to uk.d-i-y.

Remember Usenet is only a "best effort" mechanism for getting information out. It's also possible that your newsreader software (or isp) has marked your posted articles as read.

Heres one post from you recently about tiling:

Share and enjoy!

Gordon

On 19 Dec 2004, General Lee wrote

I thought uk.d-i-y is an entirely unmoderated group, isn't it?

There is no moderator and nothing gets pulled or deleted from this newsgroup.

I can see three messages from you dated 15 Dec 04 on my system, one replying to the thread Re: SDS tile remover versus flat chisel?, another about an Re: Air Admittance Valve and another Re: Stripping wall tiles, I've just downloaded the group using another server, and guess what your messages are there also.

Best you find a clue as to how Usenet and newsreaders work before attempting to slag off a non existent moderator....

This is not a moderated group. There is no way of 'pulling' postings as you describe.

If you didn't see the postings, then your newsreader either marked them as 'read' once you had read them, or marked them 'read' on your PC because you had posted them in the first place.

Repeat, no-one could (or did) suppress your postings.

LOL the God of usenet exists !

This has to be a troll, right ??

Perhaps he means Mr Motivator :-)

I just think it's a shame the OP won't get to find out quite how big a fool he made himself look.

I suspect that emailing him at:

snipped-for-privacy@curtispeters.demon.co.uk

might work...

..

I < sic > will now piss off.

Phew - thank goodness for that !

Pete

On Sun, 19 Dec 2004 18:13:22 -0000, "General Lee" strung together this:

Who?

There is no moderator.

Don't appear to be more stupid than you are.

And, indeed, the relevant MX does accept email to that address...

There was a recent crack attack in the news servers I am guessing. A lot of messages showed up as unreadable just after Mailgate.org came back online. I guess they shut down their servers when the muck was flying.

In message , General Lee writes

I missed this

bugger

Is it worth it ?

I got a reply today. He admits he was wrong about the moderation but still maintains his posts aren't there (quote follows):

"ermmm, ok, i'll buy that uk.d-i-y is an unmoderated group, but postings I have made in other groups are still available to read, and these were posted long before my postings in uk.diy. that rules out my news reader and my isp. if anything, my posts were never received at the news group even though i had sent them (antivirus software perhaps?), and if this is the case then i have to recant the bits about the moderator. there are still some really silly buggers posting there, but hey, thats life!"

So perhaps a few more people should write to:

snipped-for-privacy@curtispeters.demon.co.uk

(glad my deduction/guess of the email address was accurate...!)

Where's that Clue Iron Andy Dingley made?