Q2.1 So where did my message go?

    If you tried to post a message to a moderated group, and never saw
    it appear in the newsgroup on your news server, realize that it may
    have not been approved by the moderator as appropriate for the group.

    Also, e-mail, net news, and robo-mod software are imperfect, and
    human moderators are, after all, human.  Your message may have
    failed to reach the moderator, or been lost in a system or disk
    crash, or been misplaced by the moderator, or been approved and
    then failed to propagate correctly via net news back to your site.

    You might want to look carefully at the Date: headers in recent
    messages in the moderated newsgroup, to see if other posts are being
    approved, and to get a sense of the usual turnaround time.
    Perhaps the moderator is busy with life, and approvals are either
    slow in coming, or are coming in batches.  You might check another
    news server, or Deja News at http://www.dejanews.com/

    If, after you've waited a few days, and seen other articles approved
    that were probably submitted as the same time as yours, and you are
    sure that what you had to say is on-topic, on-charter, and is still
    important, you should probably send your message again, perhaps with
    a request for an acknowledgement.  Newsgroup charters and moderator's
    policies will vary from group to group, and you should not expect
    a rejection note for every article that is not approved, especially
    if the article is off-topic or inappropriately cross-posted.