Nuxx:1714e961-a7bc-4653-8c57-d6d98fab4acc@a36g2000yqc.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!a36g2000yqc.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Message-ID: <1714e961-a7bc-4653-8c57-d6d98fab4acc@a36g2000yqc.googlegroups.com> From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.net.news.config,uk.rec.cycling Subject: Re: 2nd RFD: create moderated newsgroup uk.rec.cycling.moderated Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2009 13:20:32 -0700 (PDT) References:   <1017561f-1559-4a73-91f1-1083ed5d0ca9@e21g2000yqb.googlegroups.com> <7Hc2m.49481$OO7.46260@text.news.virginmedia.com> <1b9j459vgerm3v76cag40gofmkprmgc6sa@4ax.com> <33aba6b7-c45e-48ca-abd8-07e7c28ce72f@y17g2000yqn.googlegroups.com> <1fkm45dsmpm5s52a2p30p6soercua7ql5t@4ax.com>    Lines: 33 Organization: http://groups.google.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 86.153.43.239 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1246566032 11799 127.0.0.1 (2 Jul 2009 20:20:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2009 20:20:32 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: a36g2000yqc.googlegroups.com; posting-host=86.153.43.239; posting-account=7_6kYAkAAABD6HrjM0VxehwvZOKMxm4g User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.11) Gecko/2009060215 Firefox/3.0.11 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Bytes: 3320 Xref: perfectly-safe.chapmancentral.co.uk uk.net.news.config:55147 uk.rec.cycling:6503

On Jul 2, 6:27=A0pm, Danny Colyer  wrote: > On 01/07/2009 17:15, Tom Crispin wrote: > > >Just because Nuxxyspouts a load of drivel most of the time doesn't > > mean that he can make a valid point worth listening to occasionally. > > > Even a stopped clock is correct twice a day. > > I hate to say it, but I agree. =A0He /could/ make quite a positive > contribution to the group, if only he could stay vaguely on topic.

Road safety *is* on topic for a cycling group. The "off-topic" accusations are never levelled against those who *support* anti- motorist measures.

But it's good that you at least recognise that I am capable of talking sense; that's more than most regulars are prepared to admit (most go with the "Anyone who disagrees with me about x is an irredeemable 'troll' in every way simply because they disagree with me" line).

> Nuxx is a mission poster. =A0I don't think that his mission is to troll, > and I don't think that he thinks of himself as a troll.

Correct. But no doubt you'll now be referred to by certain parties as a "troll-feeder" or "troll-enabler" for saying so.

> Much of what is posted by Nuxx Bar (and by Steve Firth) puts me in mind > of creationists objecting to the teaching of evolution.

That's an insult. Creationism is much more akin to a support of speed cameras than an opposition to them, as it is based on wishful thinking and those who believe in it will continue to believe in it (or claim to believe in it) no matter what the evidence says.