For over ten years I have provided the following services.

1  Keeping a list of all posters to any cat newsgroup, together with
where they are and the names of their pets.

2  Keeping [and sometimes harvesting] informational posts which I send
out on request.

3  Welcoming every newcomer to any cat newsgroup I can find with a
Welcome! message.

4  Posting regularly certain informational posts, eg the list of people
above, to a wide variety of newsgroups.

5  Collecting stories and articles to put on my site, usually though not
invariably on my Cat Storypage.

6  When reading posts asking for names for cats, posting an
informational post giving the source of many cat names on various sites,
including mine, Flippy's, and so on.

7  When reading posts asking for advice because of a lost cat, posting
an informational post giving the source of much good advice on my
Catpage, also offering to send it out by email.

8  When reading posts asking for advice because of something else where
I can help with an informational email or an article on my website,
letting the person know.

  Unfortunately, my time is getting reduced, so I have to abandon
reading some newsgroups, including all cat newsgroups except RPCA.  I
also feel that I shall have to abandon all the above services except #5,
which is in abeyance: I still collect the stories but have posted few
for a very long time.  Maybe sometime I can spend a week and add a few
hundred stories.

  However, I have worried about the loss of these services.  Supposing
someone loses a cat in a year's time, and posts the fact on a newsgroup,
not necessarily this one.  I shall no longer be giving them advice,
though of course it remains on my Catpage.  But not everyone checks the
web at such a time.  In the past they might have asked me to send them
the relevant emails.  But what of the future?

  So I posted all the informational emails to RPCA, telling people so.
The other newsgroups were told that the posts would be here.  So people
could download and keep them, and hopefully someone who loses a cat
might get one back.

  If they do not want to download them - or even to read them - that's
their choice.  If they want to treat them as spam, that's their choice.
Of course they are not spam, not being off-topic to a cat newsgroup.  It
is also a fact that I am having trouble with a remailer who despite just
getting my annual payment seems to be doing a terrible job: as explained
again and again you should change .com to .org: different remailer:
works perfectly.

  Not only is all this a *lot* of work but the final jobs were hours of
work.  Of course I could have done it in a way that was more work, as
suggested/told/nagged/whatever.

  Do I expect to get thanked?  No, of course not.  I have done a lot of
voluntary work in cats and bridge [and a little in railways some years
back] and if I get thanked by five people a year, it has been a very
good year.

  But to be criticised for this work!

  If by multiple posts you mean ot more than one newsgroup I have been
doing that for at least ten years on a regular though infrequent basis.

  If you mean posting all my informational posts it just seems too
obvious to warn people.  What do people think they are?