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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!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!npeer.de.kpn-eurorings.net!npeer-ng0.de.kpn-eurorings.net!news.qsc.de!zen.net.uk!hamilton.zen.co.uk!reader02.news.zen.co.uk.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID:  From: Guy Cuthbertson  Newsgroups: uk.net.news.moderation Subject: Clive George Please Date: Wed, 12 May 2010 20:15:52 +0100 Lines: 18 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: a42bcc6b.news.zen.co.uk X-Trace: DXC=Jndh@]X@><linCmPbdZEocYjZGX^207Pk`<MJMoM3PFm]cETS^;4choBH4535cfTO`eB3^TT1a[]ekmXe8okT<Fb X-Complaints-To: abuse@zen.co.uk Bytes: 2012 Xref: perfectly-safe.chapmancentral.co.uk uk.net.news.moderation:30236

Clive, I really think that if you are not seeking to become a URCM moderator, it would benefit you to say so. Clearly many people, including some who you otherwise seem to respect, are wondering whether you are vocally defending URCM and its moderators on UNNM wholly or partly because you are trying to get into the moderators' good books. Surely if that's not the case then it's best all round if you just say so? Isn't that better than refusing to comment on the matter "on principal" no matter how much doing so would help you? Do you enjoy being called a sycophant?

I think people would believe you if you declared that you weren't trying to become a moderator, and they could then be sure that your defending of URCM was completely bona fide. OTOH *if* you are trying to be a moderator by sucking up to Jackson and co then I can see why you would want to keep that under your hat, and I can see why you'd refuse to talk about whether you wanted to be a moderator. So can plenty of others by the looks of things. So come on Clive, tell us you don't want to be a moderator of "irk 'em" (if you can).