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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!hd10g2000vbb.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Message-ID:  From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.net.news.moderation Subject: Re: Moderated cycling group : posts rejected Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2011 01:39:02 -0700 (PDT) References:     <4d9b9be9$0$19003$c3e8da3$47a2c32d@news.astraweb.com>  <4d9c14d0$0$31956$c3e8da3$f6d5ad96@news.astraweb.com> <2g6op6putqtulgqgqgp1hpfg0g0apibfrd@4ax.com> Lines: 27 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 1302079142 10864 127.0.0.1 (6 Apr 2011 08:39:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2011 08:39:02 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: hd10g2000vbb.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: 2671 Xref: perfectly-safe.chapmancentral.co.uk uk.net.news.moderation:40384

On Apr 6, 9:05=A0am, Geoff Berrow  wrote: > On Wed, 06 Apr 2011 08:22:50 +0100, Nick  > wrote: > > >What do you think would have been wrong with allowing the initial post? > > In the grand scheme of things, nothing. =A0I don't think the regulars > would have been able to resist the urge to respond

No, but that's (somehow) never their fault, it's always exclusively the fault of the person who started the thread.

> One of the big problems with Usenet in many groups is a lack of people > starting threads.

Makes a lot of sense. You're quite right that a lot of the more interesting and worthwhile contributors often seem to leave it to others to start threads, and because of that, there aren't enough topics despite there being enough willing contributors. I'd never seen it that way before.

> It may be because so many are anti-helmet. =A0They don't realise that > the best way to fend off an impact is to yield and disperse the energy > over a wide area. =A0A soft and giving polystyrene shell is far better > than one made of cast iron.

LOL. :-)