>My next excuse - when you post at groups.google.com, it says it
>can take fromd 3 to 9 hours for your post to appear. Admittedly,
>by the fact that it got that far, it should be clear that yes,
>it works; but I also had an experience some months ago where
>it said it couldn't post to the NG, but that may have been a
>typo on my part ... - Now I remember! It wouldn't let me post
>to alt.binaries.schemats.electronic.

I've heard that groups-beta.google.com has less delay. It's Google Groups 2
beta or something like that. Also email address harvesting is harder there.

Michael
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