Some of my articles do not show up on the news server and I did not get an error message. What is wrong?
You have probably posted to a so-called “moderated” group.You can identify a moderated group by its group description ending in “(Moderated)”. Please see the documentation of your newsreader on how to view a newsgroup’s description. You can also consult the list of newsgroups viaftp://ftp.fu-berlin.de/doc/news/fu-berlin/newsgroupsPostings to moderated groups are not published on the news server directly but sent to the newsgroup’s moderator by e-mail. The moderator manually checks every article and decides whether to publish it or not. Depending on the moderator this may take from a couple of minutes up to several days.If your posting does not show up at all, but postings that were obviously sent in later do show up, this may be the result of an invalid e-mail address in your From: header.Many moderators use scripts and programs to make life easier for themselves. This includes checking with the mailserver that the article originated from to see if the From: address is valid. If not, t
You have probably posted to a so-called “moderated” group. You can identify a moderated group by its group description ending in “(Moderated)”. Please see the documentation of your news reader on how to view a newsgroup’s description. You can also consult the list of newsgroups via ftp://ftp.fu-berlin.de/doc/news/fu-berlin/newsgroups Postings to moderated groups are not published on the news server directly but sent to the newsgroup’s moderator by e-mail. The moderator manually checks every article and decides whether to publish it or not. Depending on the moderator this may take from a couple of minutes up to several days. If your posting does not show up at all, but postings that were obviously sent in later do show up, this may be the result of an invalid e-mail address in your From: header. Many moderators use scripts and programs to make life easier for themselves. This includes checking with the mail server that the article originated from to see if the From: address is valid. If
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