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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!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!news-out1.kabelfoon.nl!newsfeed.kabelfoon.nl!xindi.nntp.kabelfoon.nl!zen.net.uk!hamilton.zen.co.uk!reader02.news.zen.co.uk.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID:  From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.net.news.moderation Subject: Re: Mistake but no error Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2011 18:20:54 -0000 References:  <8psr6vFvsqU1@mid.individual.net>  Lines: 34 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: 004b58d3.news.zen.co.uk X-Trace: DXC=4hj<`0l=<5DAjCo>?LEUROYjZGX^207PK`, tom.nospam@britsc.com.nospam says... > > >On 21/01/2011 00:43, Tom Crispin wrote: > >> http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~webstump/g.urcm/messages/nr-12954320221889.txt > >> > >> Previously these sort of posts have been blocked 'meta'. It seems odd > >> to block a post as having been a mistake and then admit that there has > >> been no mistake.

You wouldn't be regularly scanning the URCM moderation log to find yet more ways in which the Chief and his Minions have goofed up, would you?

Not that I wish to discourage such behaviour...every valid complaint made on UNNM brings us closer to removal of that abomination of a newsgroup in its current form.

> So you were asked to make a retrospective mistake? > > An interesting concept.

Simon Brooke is really losing it. If he doesn't quit URCM soon then he's quite possibly going to have some kind of breakdown. There's only so much irrationality, deceit and defending of the indefensible that can be perpetrated by someone who's probably not that unreasonable IRL.

If he does quit then (particularly as he's Wacko's right-hand man) there could well be some kind of mass exodus. Of course Wacko's too stubborn to quit merely because everyone wants him to...he'll need to be forced out with an RFD (unless he chooses to go for external reasons). Which will again show that he's not doing any of this for the good of usenet or anyone but himself and his extreme opinions ("Kids shouldn't be transported in cars" anyone?)