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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!s33g2000vbb.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Message-ID: <49775046-ba63-4788-9fc7-b6d0150ebc3c@s33g2000vbb.googlegroups.com> From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.net.news.moderation Subject: Re: Moderated cycling group : posts rejected Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2011 14:10:16 -0700 (PDT) References: <445d27ea-cd2c-468c-88e1-f789c903e288@k9g2000yqi.googlegroups.com> <9060dtFkecU3@mid.individual.net>  Lines: 33 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 1302210617 23117 127.0.0.1 (7 Apr 2011 21:10:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2011 21:10:17 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: s33g2000vbb.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:1.9.2.16) Gecko/20110319 Firefox/3.6.16,gzip(gfe) Bytes: 2843 Xref: perfectly-safe.chapmancentral.co.uk uk.net.news.moderation:40524

On Apr 7, 5:37=A0pm, Judith  wrote: > On 7 Apr 2011 14:35:41 GMT, Tony Raven  wrote: > > > > >Trollsworth LeTrole  wrote: > >> On Apr 7, 2:09 pm, Simon Brooke  wrote: > > >>> Usenet /could/ be rescued. But it would require an end to the > >>> widespread tolerance of anonymity for everyone other than genuine > >>> whistle blowers and those suffering under oppressive regimes. People > >>> behave badly here because they know that their real-world identities > >>> are concealed, and so there will be no real-world consequences of > >>> their bad behaviour. > >> That's great if you imagine that the only use of this would be "good" > >> people exacting measured reputation-smearing to "bad" people in real > >> life. But the weapon cuts the other way as well, and there are bad > >> players who will not be all measured in their response. > > >It doesn't get rid of them completely but it does deal with the majority > >through social pressures. =A0Judith got really upset a while back when s= he > >thought she had been identified. > > I agree - I strongly objected to Maggot collecting personal information a= bout me - and then > speculating about the pub I drank in, where I worked, where I live - toge= ther with a warning to look > out on the way home from the pub.

Horrible. I was feeling a bit guilty about my outburst at him the other day, but not anymore...the above is just despicable. Really unpleasant.