On 23/12/2012 14:19, michael adams wrote:

wrote:
Bertie Wooster wrote:

Why should I be barred from responding to his polite and reasonable
question in the moderated group?

You aren't.

His question did not appear in the group; therefore an attempt
to reply is a nullity. This issue has been previously dealt
with: a quote from a rejected post was itself grounds for
rejection, and rightfully so; and I think you know that -
otherwise you would have submitted a post with your reply to
the quote you obtained by assiduously scanning the logs
until you found something with which you could continue your
group-wrecking activities.

Hello there Peter. Your third ever post on Usenet and all on
this group. But this time with the colons.

What is it with some poster(s) and colons ?

But there again, a change is as good as a rest, I suppose.

michael adams

I see only one colon in his contribution (not including those placed
automatically by the attribution).

Did you mean semi-colons (the punctuation mark which time had almost
forgotten)?