TRS-80 floppy drive compatibility (MISSING MESSAGE)

[Jay West]

Infomagic wrote...
> In issue 54, I received two replies to the message I sent Saturday 
> evening, but my original message was not in any of issues 53, 54, or 55.
>
> I have noticed this kind of "disconnect" before, both with my own message 
> and with messages from others.
>
> I receive the cctech "daily digest" (often there are many each day), and I 
> send my messages individually from my email client to the 
> cctech at classiccmp.org address. If there is a message board or forum, I am 
> not aware of it.
>
> Am I missing something in my communications connections? Are you folks 
> using some other tools or websites?
> Was my messge deliberately deleted, or has it not arrived in the digest 
> yet? Is this a normal behavior, or a symptom of something I'm not doing 
> right?
>
> Thanks for any help you can provide,

This is due to post gaters all being on vacation or busy at the same time. 
It's because messages sat in the queue for too long. PLUS... when a 
bleary-eyed moderator goes through too many messages, occasionally (not 
often, but sometimes) we accidentally delete a post. Once in a while this 
happens because the original post is off-topic and shouldn't go to cctech, 
but subsequent posts with the same subject line drift back on-topic. Other 
times it happens because the posts held are presented by email address, so 
there's sometimes a LONG string of posts behind a single email address. At 
times (not often), we delete the original post because it's off-topic, but 
then later there is a single reply to the off-topic post in a string of 20 
posts by a single listmember and I or others will just accept the users 
posts en-masse rather than each one. SO, one off-topic post reply sneaks in.

Loosely translated, it's the human element :)

Jay