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Path: num2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!num1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!number.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!nx02.iad01.newshosting.com!69.16.185.21.MISMATCH!npeer03.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!nx01.iad01.newshosting.com!newshosting.com!news2.euro.net!feeder.news-service.com!tudelft.nl!txtfeed1.tudelft.nl!dedekind.zen.co.uk!zen.net.uk!hamilton.zen.co.uk!prichard.zen.co.uk.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID:  From: Guy Cuthbertson  Newsgroups: uk.net.news.moderation Subject: Re: URCM Blocking : Moderators Response to JMS Date: Fri, 7 May 2010 23:18:48 +0100 References: <9vd3u59tais5qgqp78sf2ahush9dq9iqt0@4ax.com>    Lines: 43 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: MicroPlanet-Gravity/2.9.14 Organization: Zen Internet NNTP-Posting-Host: 60bfd9c5.news.zen.co.uk X-Trace: DXC=k9O:EQ12H]ckk=ScjRGMXj0g@SS;SF6ng21?Hce@>g?fFd>O\6<]@7o3Jo4>o4ZT7nU910T4[WRWb X-Complaints-To: abuse@zen.co.uk Bytes: 3029 Xref: perfectly-safe.chapmancentral.co.uk uk.net.news.moderation:29912

In article , nobby@invalid.invalid says... > > Se?or Chris  wrote: > > bugbear wrote: > >> > >> Moderators' action approved (in this instance) > >> > > > > Agreed. As an occasional urcm reader/contributor, I fully support this > > decision. > > Me to

1. Did you mean "too"? I had assumed that with a quintessentially Britcom name like "Nobby Anderson", English was your first language. I apologise if that was incorrect.

2. That's really no surprise. You never were one of the "The truth matters more than what I want to be true" bunch (there aren't many such people who post to or support URCM). So when an(other) inconvenient truth comes along, you and your ilk refuse to accept it and instead demonise and go all out to censor whoever posts it. Examples of the many such truths where this has happened: "Cycling is dangerous", "'Speed kills' kills", "Cycle helmets *could* be a good thing", and of course the really bad one, "URCM is appallingly run and Jackson and co have 'hidden' agendas".

It's natural to want to react like that when you know that the facts aren't on your side and you don't ever like to admit that you're wrong about anything (it's the only "way out" when those things are both the case), but that doesn't make it remotely justifiable. Blocking JMS just because she reminds you of awkward facts is wrong wrong wrong. For your sake and others' you need to learn to accept, live with and adapt too (sorry, "to") inconvenient truths rather than always shooting the messenger.

(You voted Labour or Green didn't you? They like to censor truths as well.  "I'm not saying" = "Yes" as we know from the Lou Knee question.)

> almost never contributer.

We're agreed on something.