no list traffic for cctech - culprit explained

[Jay West]

I dug into some of the complaints that people on cctech weren't getting any 
posts, except from me. Here's what happened.

Remember that cctech is 100% moderated. Nothing goes to it without moderator 
approval. The moderators are behind ;) I just checked and there's a few days 
of messages in there. I'm sure this will get caught up soon enough.

In addition - why are cctech people getting posts just from me? Well, see 
above, PLUS, I set my own subscription to cctech to not require moderation. 
Thus, any posts I make go straight to the users without an approval step. I 
did this because sometimes when I send out notices like "I'm taking the 
server down for a while", cctech users don't get them immediately like 
cctalk users do, due to moderation. So by setting my cctech subscription to 
no moderation, cctech people would get my notices immediately. The downside 
of this, in hindsight, is that it looks REALLY squirrely to the cctech 
people. They get a string of my normal posts, and them some time later, 
possibly a day or so, when moderation occurs, they get all the other posts I 
make. Problem solved.

I think what I'm going to do about this is change my personal cctech 
subscription back to requiring moderation. That way cctech people won't see 
the odd out of order behaviour. Then I'll create an additional "admin" 
subscription for myself that doesn't require moderation. I'll then try to 
remember to use that "admin" subscription to send out list notices and 
things will be more sane for cctech people.

Regards,

Jay West