Nuxx:10b299c9-88ad-4846-919c-b5611442c8b0@r4g2000prm.googlegroups.com

Path: num2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!num1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!number.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border3.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!postnews.google.com!r4g2000prm.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Message-ID: <10b299c9-88ad-4846-919c-b5611442c8b0@r4g2000prm.googlegroups.com> From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.net.news.moderation Subject: Simon Brooke Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2011 16:28:16 -0700 (PDT) Lines: 19 Organization: http://groups.google.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 82.71.49.124 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: posting.google.com 1300922896 25021 127.0.0.1 (23 Mar 2011 23:28:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2011 23:28:16 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: r4g2000prm.googlegroups.com; posting-host=82.71.49.124; posting-account=WrLs9woAAAD151hWKA9yknAtxFHW4kE4 User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110303 Firefox/3.6.15,gzip(gfe) Bytes: 2056 Xref: perfectly-safe.chapmancentral.co.uk uk.net.news.moderation:39376

His latest volley of rudeness has upset people and I suspect that he has taken to drink. Clearly he is most unsettled by the manner of his recent departure as Jackson's sidekick. I don't know why random people, rather than Jackson himself, are the ones who are having to take the flak.

Now that Simon Brooke is no longer gagged by his former "employer", I would like to see him being more candid about what dissatisfied him about the workings of URCM. I would also like him to name, or at least imply, who these "utterly horrible corrosive people" are/were. I think this would do a lot both to help Mr Brooke put the dreadful, traumatic ordeal of "moderating" a false newsgroup under an impossible tyrant behind him, and arm the rest of us with useful information about URCM and Jackson going forward. And it would be cathartic for everyone.

So, Simon: a-one, a-two, a-you know what to do. You owe Jackson nothing: he didn't even thank you (publicly at least) for your services when you left.