Your posting to one of our groups was delayed. You are surprised, and possibly perturbed. You feel that it isn't fair.

After all, you do know how email works. You send a message to somebody, and they receive it almost immediately. You may also belong to other Yahoogroups, and you know that (on a good day) the mail arrives reasonably soon. Why didn't your message go through right away?

There are several possibilities.

• Yahoo groups may be experiencing delays:
  • It happens
  • Postings may be delayed hours, days, or possibly up to a week
• You may be having problems with your Internet connection
• You wrote your email but you forgot to click on Send
• You may have to ask your Internet Service Provider to whitelist Yahoogroups
• You're having a bad day. Did other things go wrong today?
• The posting may have been, G-d forbid, rejected by the moderator

Speaking of your humble moderator...

Moderating this group is your moderator's primary responsibility, but it's not the best way for him to make the Big Bucks. That means (by definition) that sometimes he chooses to work on his secondary responsibilities as well. He might be...

• Eating
• Sleeping
• Spending some time with his family
• Working at his day job (which also does not offer Big Bucks)
• Writing another article

He might also be feeling...

• Tired
• Lazy
• Out of sorts

Let's not rule out those possibilities. Despite a great deal of evidence to the contrary, your moderator (hey, who edited out the word "humble" this time?) is human.

He might also...

• Hate you
• Have something against you

Those are the most likely possibilities. Has your paranoia been acting up lately?