Re: Accelerating rocket/light beam question

=======IMPORTANT moderator's note to the poster=====================

Dear Chalky,

You should know that sci.physics.research is a moderated news group,
i.e., each of your posting to this news group is checked by a team
of moderators whether it is on topic and appropriate for this news
group. That's why it takes some time, until your posting appears.
If a posting is rejected, we'd like to send you an e-mail, but your
e-mail address is not working, so that we cannot do that. For that reason,
I write this note here in the news group: Please send each posting only
once, because otherwise our mail boxes get swamped with douplicate postings.
Also a working e-mail address would be really a good idea!

In this particular case, the problem might be with Google Groups, rather
than with Chalky. As you say, as a regular poster he should be aware of
the moderation delay. We had a similar problem a couple of years ago
(i.e. we got several copies of an article even though it was submitted
only once). After a while, Google finally solved the problem.

Nevertheless, posts are either accepted and appear in the newsgroup, or
rejected. If they are rejected, then we send a rejection notice if you
supply a valid email address or a munged version which is easily
decipherable (see mine for an example). If you munge, then it is better
to munge the domain part rather than the username part (otherwise the
SMTP server for that domain might get flooded with spam addressed to an
unknown user and bounce that, generating backscatter spam (which is
sometimes, but not always, what the spammers actually want to happen)).
While there is no harm in obvious (to humans) munging, it is probably
not very necessary anymore. These days, most spammers don't harvest
email addresses from usenet and the web (there are far too few), but
rather use viruses to get email addresses stored in "address books" on
PCs or just use a dictionary attack. Any anti-spam solution which
handles such spam will also handle spam sent to your (perhaps de-munged)
.

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