Re: [gnu.org #1231740] gnu-misc-discuss broken?

[Richard Stallman]

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I could move this to address@hidden, but since Ian is the person
actually talking with me, I need to make sure it reaches him.

To try to understand this response, I looked for the previous
discussion.  I had trouble finding it.  Eventually I did find it by
searching back to August.

I asked my question in August, and it went unanswered until January.

I didn't put a reminder on my message because I expected you to respond
reasonably soon.  So I did not notice the lack of response.

  > In mailman
  > terminology, the message is "held for moderation", and hopefully within
  > a few hours or a day, a moderator approves the message so it is sent to
  > the list, and adds the user to a whitelist so their future messages are
  > not held for moderation.

So, are you saying that Colby just had bad luck that the moderator took
more than a day?

I don't think that's a big deal.  But when I heard that there had been nothing
posted there since the start of the month, that led me to suspect there was
a bigger problem.

Is the list working ok now?

Does the list simply have very light traffic?

That's not a bad thing.  That list exists for people to vent against
us, so we can say, "Please move this discussion to gnu-misc-discuss."
For honesty's sake, we need to make sure it is working, but we don't
complain if people don't use it.

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Dr Richard Stallman
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