Nuxx:753e1d2b-038e-49f7-ba13-c75de8002d89@b35g2000yqi.googlegroups.com

Path: num2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!num1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!number.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!postnews.google.com!b35g2000yqi.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Message-ID: <753e1d2b-038e-49f7-ba13-c75de8002d89@b35g2000yqi.googlegroups.com> From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.net.news.config Subject: Re: 2nd RFD: delete newsgroup uk.rec.cycling.moderated Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2010 18:32:14 -0700 (PDT) References:  <7jeife5a9a.fsf@rapun.sel.cam.ac.uk> <4usb36pfi8plapi16rlpqenu7hugjfgegg@4ax.com>  <5ecc36dm97r5rcvte1n37kcoma4l1nrd8c@4ax.com> Lines: 25 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 1278639134 16414 127.0.0.1 (9 Jul 2010 01:32:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2010 01:32:14 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: b35g2000yqi.googlegroups.com; posting-host=82.71.49.124; posting-account=7_6kYAkAAABD6HrjM0VxehwvZOKMxm4g User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.6) Gecko/20100625 Firefox/3.6.6 GTB7.1 GTBA,gzip(gfe) Bytes: 2691 Xref: perfectly-safe.chapmancentral.co.uk uk.net.news.config:61322

On Jul 8, 9:25=A0pm, David Hansen  wrote: > On Thu, 8 Jul 2010 17:55:32 +0100 someone who may be Chris French >  wrote this:- > > If the group is as bad as the wreckers claim then nobody will use it > and it can be removed after it has been dormant for a while, easy > peasy.

So whether a group is "popular" is the only thing that matters? What about, say, the fact that the group was supposed to be open to all and moderated impartially, but is in fact blatantly a private club, which is not allowed on uk.*? If they want a private club then they should be running a private forum or news server, and that's the real problem here. You know the moderators blatantly discriminate against people they don't like, and people who have the "wrong" opinions on helmets etc, and whether you personally accept that discrimination, it is not supposed to be happening on uk.*. Jackson's intentions from the very start were deceitful.

Do you think it's OK to lie about one's intentions when creating a newsgroup in order to get round the rules, as long as that newsgroup then turns out to be "popular" with a particular subset of people who would rather not be argued with or have inconvenient truths pointed out?