trouble posting to rec.boats.marketplace, need help
 

On Sun, 10 Aug 2003 03:20:52 GMT, Steve
wrote:
I am not able to post to rec.boats.marketplace, but can to other
groups. I was wondering if someone had any advice, or at least some
idea of what is happening. Thanks.
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It turns out that rec.boats.marketplace is a so called moderated
newsgroup. At one time it was monitored by a real moderator, but it
now runs on autopilot with a script that checks the basic format of
the "subject" line of your post. If you format your subject line to
look more or less like all of the others, your post should appear
within a reasonable length of time. That said, there's always the
possibility that the auto moderator is broken at the moment. I'll try
to repost my Bertram 33 for sale ad and see what happens.

trouble posting to rec.boats.marketplace, need help
 

On Sun, 10 Aug 2003 03:20:52 GMT, Steve
wrote:

I am not able to post to rec.boats.marketplace, but can to other
groups. I was wondering if someone had any advice, or at least some
idea of what is happening. Thanks.

Steve

Rec.boats.marketplace is moderated.

The FAQs with instructions for posting are at
ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.a...oat-market/faq

and

http://www.faqs.org/faqs/boat-market/faq/


Jack

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Jack Dale
Swiftsure Sailing Academy
Director/ISPA and CYA Instructor
http://www.swiftsuresailing.com
Phone: 1 (800) 470-SAIL (toll free)
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trouble posting to rec.boats.marketplace, need help
 

Replying to my own post :-) , it looks like everything is working
OK. My FS post just went up in about 5 minutes. The secret is in the
format of the header. It must look something like this:

FS: Bertram 33 Flybridge Sport Fisherman in NY/NJ/CT

You could probably shorten this up to:

FS: Bertram in NY

and it would still post. The script looks for "FS: ",
followed by a description, followed by the keyword "in",
followed by a location.

Hope that helps.
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On Sun, 10 Aug 2003 00:11:36 -0400, Wayne.B
wrote:

On Sun, 10 Aug 2003 03:20:52 GMT, Steve
wrote:
I am not able to post to rec.boats.marketplace, but can to other
groups. I was wondering if someone had any advice, or at least some
idea of what is happening. Thanks.
================================================= ==

It turns out that rec.boats.marketplace is a so called moderated
newsgroup. At one time it was monitored by a real moderator, but it
now runs on autopilot with a script that checks the basic format of
the "subject" line of your post. If you format your subject line to
look more or less like all of the others, your post should appear
within a reasonable length of time. That said, there's always the
possibility that the auto moderator is broken at the moment. I'll try
to repost my Bertram 33 for sale ad and see what happens.