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Path: number1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!postnews.google.com!q5g2000hsa.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Message-ID: <7887a699-7983-4720-a60f-de8c0ad384b6@q5g2000hsa.googlegroups.com> From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.net.news.config Subject: Re: Procedure for RFDing change to moderated status Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2008 04:58:57 -0700 (PDT) References:   <8fc*7tvos@news.chiark.greenend.org.uk>  Lines: 32 Organization: http://groups.google.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 88.105.146.155 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1223121538 29955 127.0.0.1 (4 Oct 2008 11:58:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2008 11:58:58 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: q5g2000hsa.googlegroups.com; posting-host=88.105.146.155; posting-account=7_6kYAkAAABD6HrjM0VxehwvZOKMxm4g User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.2) Gecko/2008091620 Firefox/3.0.2,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Bytes: 2768 Xref: perfectly-safe.chapmancentral.co.uk uk.net.news.config:51305

On Oct 3, 7:10=A0am, Mark Goodge  wrote: > On 03 Oct 2008 00:06:20 +0100 (BST), David Damerell put finger to > keyboard and typed: > > >Quoting =A0Mark Goodge =A0: > >>On 02 Oct 2008 17:57:21 +0100 (BST), David Damerell put finger to > >>keyboard and typed: > >>>Perhaps I'm just missing it, but I can't find the procedure for RFDing= a > >>>change to moderated status for a newsgroup. Could someone enlighten me= , > >>>please? > >>Paragraph 9 onhttp://www.usenet.org.uk/guidelines.html > > >Yes. I got there, but I was rather hoping something actually detailed th= e > >quote appropriate changes unquote. > > No, nothing does. I did once propose an RFD to tidy up this section > (as it's woefully inadequate, really), but it never got anywhere. > > If you want an example of how it's been done before, I think the last > group to change from unmoderated to moderated in uk.* was > uk.religion.christian. So looking up the RFD for that may be helpful, > although it was quite some time ago.

Heh. There's another lot of people who, like many of the regulars on uk.rec.cycling, would rather censor those who post "awkward" truths that make their position look foolish. :-) ("There's no evidence that God exists." Can't have that, true or not. "There's no evidence that speed cameras save lives." Can't have that either....)