>
> > From: David Alex Lamb <dalamb@cs.queensu.ca>
> > Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 08:41:55 -0400 (EDT)
>
> > news.answers moderator response is very slow this month but should speed up in
> > a couple of weeks.
>
> Well, I've submitted a FAQ exactly a month ago and received an automated
> reply stating, among other things:
> [snip]
> Two days ago I inquired as to the state of the FAQ approval process and
> received the identical (as far as the above quote is concerned)
> automated reply.
All mail to news-answers-request@mit.edu gets that same autoresponder
message. The August date is the date of the oldest message in the queue,
which is often something that was low priority -- some later messages might
well have been handled (and in fact were handled).
> Does anyone know if there are some problems I should perhaps be aware
> of, or do I just have to be patient?
You need to be patient. Our usual advice is not to wait for us, but simply to
cut *.answers out of your newsgroups line and post to the regular groups.
We have only two moderators who are even moderately active, Pam Greene and me.
Pam has been in thesis mode since last spring, and I hit the wall in September
when I started teaching again. In the last few days I've managed to log in
and start cleaning things up, but it will be a while before I get to
everything. I expect to handle the overnight batch job error messages first,
then the stuff that people submitted to the FAQ checker, then "all the rest".
We tried adding a third moderator in the summer, but it took so long for MIT
to set up his account that he apparently gave up. At this point I can't spare
the time to train someone, anyway.
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