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Guerri Stevens
December 26th, 2012, 06:11 PM
The word for this round is

**************
* *
* HORCHATA *
* *
**************

As usual, no indication of capitalisation or otherwise is implied.

New players are welcome. Don't look in a dictionary. If you know the
word, let me know soon, by Email (if too many people know it, I'll pick
another word).

Think up a creative, intriguing, funny or genuine looking definition
that will entice your fellow players to vote for it. Send it BY EMAIL
(not as a public forum message) to me, guerri (AT) guerristevens (DOT) com, before
the deadline, which is ....

Friday, December 28 at

7:30 a.m. EST in the U.S.
12:30 p.m. in London
Other places, other times.

Full rules, if you're curious, are at the following location:
http://tinyurl.com/4m6ger

--
Guerri

Guerri Stevens
December 27th, 2012, 05:23 AM
I sent this last night, and the message is in my "Sent" folder, but
evidently it didn't make it to the group. My guess is that it is
languishing in the moderation queue. I am changing the deadline for
submissions accordingly.


The word for this round is

**************
* *
* HORCHATA *
* *
**************

As usual, no indication of capitalisation or otherwise is implied.

New players are welcome. Don't look in a dictionary. If you know the
word, let me know soon, by Email (if too many people know it, I'll pick
another word).

Think up a creative, intriguing, funny or genuine looking definition
that will entice your fellow players to vote for it. Send it BY EMAIL
(not as a public forum message) to me, guerri (AT) guerristevens (DOT) com, before
the deadline, which is ....

Friday, December 28 at

6:30 p.m. EST in the U.S.
11:30 p.m. in London
Other places, other times.

Full rules, if you're curious, are at the following location:
http://tinyurl.com/4m6ger

--
Guerri

Guerri
December 27th, 2012, 05:59 AM
This is my third try, posting directly to the group this time. Neither of
the previous postings appears to have made it.

I sent this last night, and the message is in my "Sent" folder, but
evidently it didn't make it to the group. My guess is that it is
languishing in the moderation queue. I am changing the deadline for
submissions accordingly.


The word for this round is

**************
* *
* HORCHATA *
* *
**************

As usual, no indication of capitalisation or otherwise is implied.

New players are welcome. Don't look in a dictionary. If you know the
word, let me know soon, by Email (if too many people know it, I'll pick
another word).

Think up a creative, intriguing, funny or genuine looking definition
that will entice your fellow players to vote for it. Send it BY EMAIL
(not as a public forum message) to me, guerri (AT) guerristevens (DOT) com, before
the deadline, which is ....

Friday, December 28 at

6:30 p.m. EST in the U.S.
11:30 p.m. in London
Other places, other times.

Full rules, if you're curious, are at the following location:
http://tinyurl.com/4m6ger

--
Guerri

Jim Hart
December 27th, 2012, 06:28 AM
a discussion among prostitutes.
nad (obviously)

It's curious about your lost messages.

> posting directly to the group this time. Neither of the previous postings
appears to have made it.

What do you mean by directly? From the google groups website?

How were the previous postings sent and why would they need moderating? I
wasn't aware messages here are moderated - mine always seem to appear
immediately, whether I post from the G-groups website (as with this reply),
or email them to dixonary (AT) googlegroups (DOT) com (which I do if I'm dealing).

Jim

Guerri Stevens
December 27th, 2012, 07:25 AM
Good NAD!

By "posting directly to the group" I meant that I went online, went into
the group, signed in, and started a new discussion (I think that's what
they call it now).

The other two attempts were Emailed to the group. As is this reply to
you, and other messages I send to the group. Mostly that works fine. But
perhaps a week or two ago, Johnny Barrs noticed a message of mine
waiting in the moderation queue, and did whatever is necessary to get it
posted.

No, messages are not "moderated". If I understand correctly, messages
that Google thinks are from non-members require action on the part of a
moderator. Perhaps there are other reasons as well. I don't know for
sure that my two earlier attempts to send the new word ended up that way
or not; Johnny or one of the other moderators will probably tell me.

What makes it weird is that some messages get through just fine, but
some don't. I was wondering if this happens because I am using a
non-Google Email address, but there are many other players who also do
that, so obviously that's not what is causing the problem.

Guerri

Jim Hart wrote:
> It's curious about your lost messages.
>
> > posting directly to the group this time. Neither of the previous
> postings appears to have made it.
>
> What do you mean by directly? From the google groups website?
>
> How were the previous postings sent and why would they need moderating?
> I wasn't aware messages here are moderated - mine always seem to appear
> immediately, whether I post from the G-groups website (as with this
> reply), or email them to dixonary (AT) googlegroups (DOT) com (which I do if I'm
> dealing).
>
> Jim
>

Efrem Mallach
December 27th, 2012, 08:06 AM
Guerri,

I use two e-mail addresses. It doesn't matter which one people use in writing to me, they both go to the same in-box, but Google Groups only accepts one of them. Messages I send to the group from the other one go into limbo. Perhaps they end up in the moderation queue, I don't know. An intelligent human moderator would realize that they duplicate another message that I sent out a minute or so later (about as long as it takes me to notice that the group message didn't come back and realize what the reason must be) and would then delete them, so the fact that I never heard about them again doesn't bother me.

So, do you have two addresses? Do messages from one of them get through, but not the other? Is the one that works the one that Google Groups knows about?

Efrem

=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
On Dec 27, 2012, at 8:25 AM, Guerri Stevens wrote:

> Good NAD!
>
> By "posting directly to the group" I meant that I went online, went into the group, signed in, and started a new discussion (I think that's what they call it now).
>
> The other two attempts were Emailed to the group. As is this reply to you, and other messages I send to the group. Mostly that works fine. But perhaps a week or two ago, Johnny Barrs noticed a message of mine waiting in the moderation queue, and did whatever is necessary to get it posted.
>
> No, messages are not "moderated". If I understand correctly, messages that Google thinks are from non-members require action on the part of a moderator. Perhaps there are other reasons as well. I don't know for sure that my two earlier attempts to send the new word ended up that way or not; Johnny or one of the other moderators will probably tell me.
>
> What makes it weird is that some messages get through just fine, but some don't. I was wondering if this happens because I am using a non-Google Email address, but there are many other players who also do that, so obviously that's not what is causing the problem.
>
> Guerri
>
> Jim Hart wrote:
>> It's curious about your lost messages.
>> > posting directly to the group this time. Neither of the previous postings appears to have made it.
>> What do you mean by directly? From the google groups website?
>> How were the previous postings sent and why would they need moderating? I wasn't aware messages here are moderated - mine always seem to appear immediately, whether I post from the G-groups website (as with this reply), or email them to dixonary (AT) googlegroups (DOT) com (which I do if I'm dealing).
>> Jim
>>

Christopher Carson
December 27th, 2012, 08:28 AM
Guerri,

Just a quick FYI, two of your messages (the ones that were just posted) were
in the moderation queue. I released them and checked the 'always allow'
option but in the past that hasn't always done the trick. We'll see.

Chris


-----Original Message-----
From: Guerri Stevens
Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2012 6:23 AM
To: Google Dixonary
Subject: [Dixonary] Round 2368: HORCHATA

I sent this last night, and the message is in my "Sent" folder, but
evidently it didn't make it to the group. My guess is that it is
languishing in the moderation queue. I am changing the deadline for
submissions accordingly.


The word for this round is

**************
* *
* HORCHATA *
* *
**************

As usual, no indication of capitalisation or otherwise is implied.

New players are welcome. Don't look in a dictionary. If you know the
word, let me know soon, by Email (if too many people know it, I'll pick
another word).

Think up a creative, intriguing, funny or genuine looking definition
that will entice your fellow players to vote for it. Send it BY EMAIL
(not as a public forum message) to me, guerri (AT) guerristevens (DOT) com, before
the deadline, which is ....

Friday, December 28 at

6:30 p.m. EST in the U.S.
11:30 p.m. in London
Other places, other times.

Full rules, if you're curious, are at the following location:
http://tinyurl.com/4m6ger

--
Guerri

Efrem Mallach
December 27th, 2012, 08:29 AM
Guerri,

This one just came through, time-stamped Wednesday (yesterday) evening in my (and your) time zone. I assume it was one of the earlier ones that you said didn't make it. I also assume that we should ignore this deadline in favor of the later one in your earlier/later third message. Is that correct?

Thanks,

Efrem

=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
On Dec 26, 2012, at 7:11 PM, Guerri Stevens wrote:

> The word for this round is
>
> **************
> * *
> * HORCHATA *
> * *
> **************
>
> As usual, no indication of capitalisation or otherwise is implied.
>
> New players are welcome. Don't look in a dictionary. If you know the word, let me know soon, by Email (if too many people know it, I'll pick another word).
>
> Think up a creative, intriguing, funny or genuine looking definition that will entice your fellow players to vote for it. Send it BY EMAIL (not as a public forum message) to me, guerri (AT) guerristevens (DOT) com, before the deadline, which is ....
>
> Friday, December 28 at
>
> 7:30 a.m. EST in the U.S.
> 12:30 p.m. in London
> Other places, other times.
>
> Full rules, if you're curious, are at the following location: http://tinyurl.com/4m6ger
>
> --
> Guerri

Dodi Schultz
December 27th, 2012, 08:44 AM
Guerri, that is SO weird. The new-word announcement you sent this morning
was in my in-box when I booted up around 45 minutes ago. The one you sent
at 7:11 p.m. yesterday has JUST arrived NOW.

The return address shown for you is identical; the same one you've always
used, the same one that appears on the list of players.

Guerri Stevens
December 27th, 2012, 09:35 AM
I do have two addresses, but I am using only one of them. When I got my
current Email address, I notified people of it, and obviously I joined
the group with that address. But I don't know whether I deleted my
previous address from the group. I don't use it so I can't tell you
whether a message from it would get through or not.

I notice that both of my original postings of the word have now arrived,
which will undoubtedly confuse people (sigh). I wonder if a moderator
fixed them so they'd appear, or Google just stopped holding onto them?

Guerri

Efrem Mallach wrote:
> Guerri,
>
> I use two e-mail addresses. It doesn't matter which one people use in writing to me, they both go to the same in-box, but Google Groups only accepts one of them. Messages I send to the group from the other one go into limbo. Perhaps they end up in the moderation queue, I don't know. An intelligent human moderator would realize that they duplicate another message that I sent out a minute or so later (about as long as it takes me to notice that the group message didn't come back and realize what the reason must be) and would then delete them, so the fact that I never heard about them again doesn't bother me.
>
> So, do you have two addresses? Do messages from one of them get through, but not the other? Is the one that works the one that Google Groups knows about?
>
> Efrem

Guerri Stevens
December 27th, 2012, 09:37 AM
Thanks, Chris. Probably would have been better to delete them, but the
only "problem" I can see is that some people will conform to the earlier
deadline. I'll put the new deadline in my progress report message later on.

Guerri

Christopher Carson wrote:
> Guerri,
>
> Just a quick FYI, two of your messages (the ones that were just posted)
> were in the moderation queue. I released them and checked the 'always
> allow' option but in the past that hasn't always done the trick. We'll
> see.
>
> Chris
>
>
> -----Original Message----- From: Guerri Stevens
> Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2012 6:23 AM
> To: Google Dixonary
> Subject: [Dixonary] Round 2368: HORCHATA
>
> I sent this last night, and the message is in my "Sent" folder, but
> evidently it didn't make it to the group. My guess is that it is
> languishing in the moderation queue. I am changing the deadline for
> submissions accordingly.
>
>
> The word for this round is
>
> **************
> * *
> * HORCHATA *
> * *
> **************
>
> As usual, no indication of capitalisation or otherwise is implied.
>
> New players are welcome. Don't look in a dictionary. If you know the
> word, let me know soon, by Email (if too many people know it, I'll pick
> another word).
>
> Think up a creative, intriguing, funny or genuine looking definition
> that will entice your fellow players to vote for it. Send it BY EMAIL
> (not as a public forum message) to me, guerri (AT) guerristevens (DOT) com, before
> the deadline, which is ....
>
> Friday, December 28 at
>
> 6:30 p.m. EST in the U.S.
> 11:30 p.m. in London
> Other places, other times.
>
> Full rules, if you're curious, are at the following location:
> http://tinyurl.com/4m6ger
>

Guerri Stevens
December 27th, 2012, 09:41 AM
If you saw Chris's message, you'll see that my original two attempts
ended up in the moderation queue, as I'd suspected, and he released
them. Why this happens occasionally is unknown.

Guerri

Dodi Schultz wrote:
>
> Guerri, that is SO weird. The new-word announcement you sent this
> morning was in my in-box when I booted up around 45 minutes ago. The one
> you sent at 7:11 p.m. yesterday has JUST arrived NOW.
>
> The return address shown for you is identical; the same one you've
> always used, the same one that appears on the list of players.

Dodi Schultz
December 27th, 2012, 10:26 AM
He said he'd released the two you'd /just sent/, not the one you'd sent
last evening. I received /one/ new-word announcement that you sent this
morning (it arrived long before Chris's action) and, later, the /one/ that
you sent last evening.

I'm assuming it's the later deadline (Friday, 6:30 p.m. EST) that prevails.
(Not that I expect to come up with anything clever.)

================================================== ============

On 12/27/2012 10:41 AM, Guerri Stevens wrote:
> If you saw Chris's message, you'll see that my original two attempts
> ended up in the moderation queue, as I'd suspected, and he released them.
> Why this happens occasionally is unknown.
>
> Guerri
>
> Dodi Schultz wrote:
>>
>> Guerri, that is SO weird. The new-word announcement you sent this
>> morning was in my in-box when I booted up around 45 minutes ago. The one
>> you sent at 7:11 p.m. yesterday has JUST arrived NOW.
>>
>> The return address shown for you is identical; the same one you've
>> always used, the same one that appears on the list of players.
>

John Barrs
December 27th, 2012, 10:55 AM
Guerri

From my perspective your messages are unreadable under my regime (all three
of them) because they are creating secondary windows and to be able to read
the messages I have to disable my pop-up-blocker. I am not prepared to run
my browser with the blocker disabled so I will probably sit this round
out....

Reasons: I cannot see what secondary windows your emails are creating -
which is the reason I run a pop-blocker, to prevent unseen windows running
on my machine doing what I do not know

JohnnyB

Christopher Carson
December 27th, 2012, 11:20 AM
The 'just posted' refers to when the messages were released from the
moderation queue, not when they were sent by Guerri. That's the Google
terminology for the approval action. It didn't refer to when the messages
were originally sent. I got the 'pending message' message at 9:03am. I'm
not sure what took the system so long to send that alert message.

Chris


-----Original Message-----
From: Dodi Schultz
Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2012 11:26 AM
To: dixonary (AT) googlegroups (DOT) com
Subject: Re: [Dixonary] Round 2368: HORCHATA

He said he'd released the two you'd /just sent/, not the one you'd sent
last evening. I received /one/ new-word announcement that you sent this
morning (it arrived long before Chris's action) and, later, the /one/ that
you sent last evening.

I'm assuming it's the later deadline (Friday, 6:30 p.m. EST) that prevails.
(Not that I expect to come up with anything clever.)

================================================== ============

On 12/27/2012 10:41 AM, Guerri Stevens wrote:
> If you saw Chris's message, you'll see that my original two attempts ended
> up in the moderation queue, as I'd suspected, and he released them. Why
> this happens occasionally is unknown.
>
> Guerri
>
> Dodi Schultz wrote:
>>
>> Guerri, that is SO weird. The new-word announcement you sent this morning
>> was in my in-box when I booted up around 45 minutes ago. The one you sent
>> at 7:11 p.m. yesterday has JUST arrived NOW.
>>
>> The return address shown for you is identical; the same one you've always
>> used, the same one that appears on the list of players.
>

Steve Graham
December 27th, 2012, 11:37 AM
Funny

I got no popup requests on any of Guerri's messages via my Gmail client. I
tried IE, Firefox and Chrome and I saw no popups or requests.



Steve Graham

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different
results. Albert Einstein



From: dixonary (AT) googlegroups (DOT) com [mailto:dixonary (AT) googlegroups (DOT) com] On Behalf
Of John Barrs
Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2012 8:56 AM
To: dixonary (AT) googlegroups (DOT) com
Subject: Re: [Dixonary] Round 2368: HORCHATA



Guerri

From my perspective your messages are unreadable under my regime (all three
of them) because they are creating secondary windows and to be able to read
the messages I have to disable my pop-up-blocker. I am not prepared to run
my browser with the blocker disabled so I will probably sit this round
out....

Reasons: I cannot see what secondary windows your emails are creating -
which is the reason I run a pop-blocker, to prevent unseen windows running
on my machine doing what I do not know

JohnnyB

Guerri Stevens
December 27th, 2012, 11:39 AM
My messages are entirely text, so I don't understand how they are
creating secondary windows!

The word is HORCHATA, and the deadline for you would be 11:30 p.m.

I am deleting the quoteback in case that is what creates an additional
window.

Guerri

Guerri Stevens
December 27th, 2012, 11:52 AM
Chris's comment about the messages he released was "the ones that were
just posted". Not the ones that I'd "just sent". I took that to mean
that the message I'd sent last night and the one early this morning were
released and were now "just posted".

The message you got *before* Chris's action was not Emailed to the
group, but was composed and posted directly in the Google Group.

Yes, I am using the later deadline because my announcement of the word
didn't appear when I expected it, and I wanted to give people 36 hours.
The only problem I can see with someone using the earlier deadline is
if it has passed and the person assumes it's too late to submit a
definition.

If the players, in general, feel that this is a disaster, I can abandon
the current word and find another one.

I will cite the revised deadline when I post a progress message.

Guerri

Dodi Schultz wrote:
> He said he'd released the two you'd /just sent/, not the one you'd sent
> last evening. I received /one/ new-word announcement that you sent this
> morning (it arrived long before Chris's action) and, later, the /one/
> that you sent last evening.
>
> I'm assuming it's the later deadline (Friday, 6:30 p.m. EST) that
> prevails. (Not that I expect to come up with anything clever.)
>
> ================================================== ============

Guerri Stevens
December 27th, 2012, 12:18 PM
Yes, ignore the earlier deadline. I wanted to give people about 36
hours, so changed the deadline in the later messages.

Guerri

Efrem Mallach wrote:
> ... I also assume that we should ignore this deadline in favor of the later one in your earlier/later third message. Is that correct?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Efrem