At 02:12 PM 12-11-02 +0800, you wrote:

>Is it just me or are other people experiencing this
>same problem? At first I thought my newsreader (Mozilla)
>was dropping messages that came from me, but after
>seeing other recent threads with missing first posts,
>I'm starting to suspect it could be the news server
>that's doing this.

This list isn't a newsgroup. It gets mirrored to a newsgroup. There are
various reasons why messages get dropped. Except for the one that happens
occasionally -- the newsgroup mirror server is down -- individual users
lose their messages because they have crossed a "bounce threshold" with the
Yahoo MAIL LIST server. If your email address bounces list messages more
than a certain number of times, the Yahoo server puts your account "on ice"
and you have to go to your yahoo account and reactivate it yourself. As
Moderator, I don't have any control over it.

It's really up to you to ensure that your pop account doesn't bounce list
messages. Yahoo used to re-try for five days, but they stopped doing that
about a year ago and started counting bounces instead.

Naturally, if you post a message from an email address that is not the one
you have set up in your yahoo account for receiving messages, then that
message won't bounce, it will just disappear.

^heLen
(List Moderator)