Seshat wrote:

>
> Peter T. Daniels wrote:
> > Did this turn into a moderated group recently, with the moderator
> > taking two days to post messages??
>
> Yes, Qalam changed into a moderated group, but this did not happen
> recently: I probably did this around 2001, after the first few spam
> messages hit the list.
>
> So far, this has been almost unnoticeable to most people, because all
> frequent posters (or, indeed, all posters who did not look like
> spammers) have been in the "white list", i.e. were allowed to post
> without moderation.

Yet it is now taking three to four days for messages to appear.

Holding a conversation (as opposed to exchanging letters through the
mail!) at such a pace is impossible and intolerable.
--
Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...