RE: [OT] Bickering

["Keith Doxey" <lists.diyha@xxxxxxx>]

Hi Mark,

I did get a genuine reply to my "complaint" and he did say he was
going to
investigate the web interface as there had been a suddent increase in
replies to the wrong group.

One of the points made last night to claires comments that setting up a
newsgroup was easy was that "if it was so easy, how come the previous
attempts of members of this list failed"

Maybe Claire succeeded because she is well in with the people who create
the
groups.!

Keith

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Hetherington [mailto:mark.egroups@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 06 March 2002 00:00
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] [OT] Bickering


> I tried to support the creation of uk.tech.home-automation but made
the
> mistake of replying via a web based news reader. I dont know if I
clicked
> the wrong link or if it was the fault of the web interface, but my
reply
> went to the wrong newsgroup which was for announcements only. I
alomost
> instantly got jumped on by the Usenet police chastising me for doing
the
> wrong thing.

[snip]
To be honest I think you merely triggered the "standard letter".
That
particular group has no way of posting other than via 'control' and IIRC
requests to post will result in you recieving that message along with a
copy
going to the moderator for the group so he can check for spammers. This
then
leads to spam announcements and other stuff. It may be an impersonal
response, but you probably made history by explaining your mistake... hehe.

Having been through the creation of UKHA so subscribed to all the
"right"
places... I really hate the whole running of hierarchy. I don't know the
complete history, but a number of the people involved seem purely there to
excercise what little bit of power it gives them.