My experience is like yours, except most of my stuff eventually showed
up. You may want to send to comp.sources.misc (allbery at uunet) instead.
Turnaround in that group seems much faster.
bill davidsen (davidsen at crdos1.crd.GE.COM)
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"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me