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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!f30g2000yqa.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Message-ID: <297712ea-46d4-44f9-9f48-c0f0a86f901b@f30g2000yqa.googlegroups.com> From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.net.news.moderation Subject: Re: Address needed before posting Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2011 03:18:18 -0800 (PST) References:  <8rie5sFjnqU1@mid.individual.net> <7vtd28xhje.ln2@news.ducksburg.com>   Lines: 20 Organization: http://groups.google.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 82.71.49.124 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1297423098 26647 127.0.0.1 (11 Feb 2011 11:18:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2011 11:18:18 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: f30g2000yqa.googlegroups.com; posting-host=82.71.49.124; posting-account=7_6kYAkAAABD6HrjM0VxehwvZOKMxm4g User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Opera/9.80 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.5.8; U; en) Presto/2.7.62 Version/11.01,gzip(gfe) Bytes: 2289 Xref: perfectly-safe.chapmancentral.co.uk uk.net.news.moderation:37335

On Feb 11, 11:03=A0am, Tim Jackson  wrote: > On 11 Feb 2011 10:08:20 +0000 (GMT), Eleanor Blair wrote... > > > =A0I would definitely welcome > > anyone who has ideas of what to do in this situation. > > [some very sensible stuff]

I'll be interested to see what Eleanor says (preferably on behalf of the "moderators") in response.

Ultimately a radical change in policy is the only way most of the current lot are going to avoid being replaced. I'm not sure that [Ian] Jackson and co are well-intentioned enough to even try, let alone succeed in, adopting a genuine content-based policy (I think they and their apologists *want* to discriminate against certain posters and that's why the newsgroup was created), but I don't see any harm in them being allowed to have a go if they can bring themselves to (which would of course entail an admission of having been wrong in the past, so it's fairly unlikely unfortunately).