Nuxx:536c47a1-ca19-46d0-a3e5-4b20d31403ee@l32g2000vba.googlegroups.com

Path: num2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!num1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!number.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!postnews.google.com!l32g2000vba.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Message-ID: <536c47a1-ca19-46d0-a3e5-4b20d31403ee@l32g2000vba.googlegroups.com> From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling Subject: Re: Pre-RFD: uk.rec.cycling.moderated Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 12:34:00 -0700 (PDT) References: <2lc*4xWHs@news.chiark.greenend.org.uk>     <00630997$0$22106$c3e8da3@news.astraweb.com> Lines: 11 Organization: http://groups.google.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 81.156.251.27 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1243625640 29198 127.0.0.1 (29 May 2009 19:34:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 19:34:00 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: l32g2000vba.googlegroups.com; posting-host=81.156.251.27; posting-account=7_6kYAkAAABD6HrjM0VxehwvZOKMxm4g User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Bytes: 1863 Xref: perfectly-safe.chapmancentral.co.uk uk.rec.cycling:705369

On May 28, 7:06=A0pm, John  wrote: > > As I see it the goal of moderation is not to eliminate opposing views or > even moderately offensive views it is to limit the constant repitition > of entrenched positions.

That *should* be the goal of moderation. It isn't in this case. Look no further than the idiot who started the ball rolling.

This group is not being started for legitimate reasons and has no place on usenet.