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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!npeer03.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!nx02.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!shaftesbury.zen.co.uk.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID:  From: Guy Cuthbertson  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling,cam.transport Subject: Re: Psycholist Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2010 09:56:16 +0100 References: <0dn4269vefiql2pp8bdmf9g59n5ivmrh0i@4ax.com> <1334c98f-0a5c-48bd-9b89-d1bd3307d8bb@g19g2000yqc.googlegroups.com>  <336b2935-159e-4695-a4f3-a978d3d1b59b@d37g2000yqm.googlegroups.com>  Lines: 32 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: MicroPlanet-Gravity/2.9.14 X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 100624-0, 24/06/2010), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean Organization: Zen Internet NNTP-Posting-Host: 1d6ac13c.news.zen.co.uk X-Trace: DXC=AFReAGkBUJ1UF9Yg6^So:5nok4Z\, bugbear@trim_papermule.co.uk_trim says... > > Derek C wrote: > > On Jun 24, 6:38 am, Guy Cuthbertson  wrote: > >>> The Psycholists' Charter: > >> Excellent! Nail hit squarely on the head. > >> > >> Expect posting to URCM to become a *lot* tougher for you, lad.... > > > > Why should I care about that? The URCM newsgroup is mainly for > > psycholists and rejects most of my postings anyway. I can no longer be > > bothered to waste my time by writing and submitting them! > > And thus is the purpose served.

...if you're a fuckwit psycholist who thinks it's quite acceptable to run a newsgroup as a private club and constantly lie about it (as long as the "enforced" opinions are the same as yours, of course).

Imagine if uk.rec.cycling.moderated was run in the same way, but by those who had the opposite opinions. Suddenly you and your ilk would be very concerned by the "private club" aspect. Of course, reasonable people don't want a newsgroup run as a private club *whatever* opinions are "enforced", and it says so, so much about the psycholists that not a single one has said "While I agree with the enforced opinions, I don't think moderating by opinion is the right approach", or even admitted that such an approach is being taken.

Did you make that "Profile of a Murderer" post BTW? Don't be shy about taking credit: it's honestly one of the funniest things I've ever read from a psycholist (where they've intended to be funny at any rate).