Hello all in the group..........

[Guest guest]

Hi everyone,

Just wondered why things have been so quiet in the last couple of days - not

many posts (or maybe I'm just not receiving them?) - is this something to do

with being moderated? Don't really understand what being moderated

means..........? Can anyone explain? Sorry for so many questions.

Hope everyone is OK.,

Jacky (London)

[Guest guest]

Hi Jacky,

I'll answer your questions one at a time, in an effort

to clarify what has been happening at our cea

Support Group lately.

1) On Tuesday May 1, imposed temporary

moderation on the Group in order to eliminate numerous

hostile messages. These flames were provoked by

several messages that were medically unfounded, and

somewhat antagonistic in nature. This was the second

incident of its type within the past week or so. The

situation was getting out of control, and some Group

members were (understandably) becoming very disturbed

by the negativity in many of these messages. The

negative messages needed to be eliminated in order to

get the Group back on an even keel, with members

helping each other. According to the Group settings

for cea Support, messages still require approval,

ie they are still subject to moderation.

2) Moderation is an option of Groups which enables the

Owner/Moderator of the Group (ie ) to require

approval of messages by the Moderator before the

messages are posted.

3) All of the Yahoo Groups have been *extremely* slow

for the past couple of days. Normally I use the online

Post function at the Groups sites (instead of email)

to post messages. The online function seems to have

been disabled. I can submit messages via email, but

the messages often take hours to be posted to the

Group. This Groups posting issue arose quite abruptly.

I belong to four other Groups in addition to cea

Support, and I have been experiencing the same

problems and delays in posting to all Groups, not just

cea Support. But-- my messages have been

(eventually) posted, if submitted via email. Yahoo is

planning to migrate all of its Clubs to Yahoo Groups

in the coming months. I can only assume that Yahoo is

doing some work which has impacted Groups, and that

Groups will be restored to (relative) health by the

next millennium. :-)

~Jim

http://profiles.yahoo.com/kali2030

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Hi everyone,

Just wondered why things have been so quiet in the

last couple of days - not many posts (or maybe I'm

just not receiving them?) - is this something to do

with being moderated? Don't really understand what

being moderated means......? Can anyone explain? Sorry

for so many questions.

Hope everyone is OK.,

Jacky (London)

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[Guest guest]

Friday, May 04, 2001, 3:24:44 AM, you wrote:

J> 3) All of the Yahoo Groups have been *extremely* slow for the past

J> couple of days.

Right at the point that the group was changed to moderated, Y!G slowed to

a halt. It was taking several hours for a message to get to the moderated

page and several hours for it to appear in the messages page (and to be

delivered via email). It was so slow that it could be confused for broken.

Normal delivery has been reinstated now so we should see must faster

responses.

cheers,

davidp.

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Pascoe, dp@..., South Perth, Western Australia