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Path: number1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!postnews.google.com!z66g2000hsc.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Message-ID:  From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling Subject: Re: What king of newsgroup is this ?? Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 20:25:48 -0700 (PDT) References:   Lines: 35 Organization: http://groups.google.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 88.105.145.93 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1217474748 19450 127.0.0.1 (31 Jul 2008 03:25:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 03:25:48 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: z66g2000hsc.googlegroups.com; posting-host=88.105.145.93; posting-account=7_6kYAkAAABD6HrjM0VxehwvZOKMxm4g User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070208 Firefox/3.0.1,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Bytes: 2897 Xref: perfectly-safe.chapmancentral.co.uk uk.rec.cycling:659816

On Jul 30, 11:09=A0pm, "Nigel Cliffe"  wrote: > Brian Goldsmith wrote: > > I subscribed to this group about a week ago, but I don't see to much > > about actual cycling. =A0It all seems to be about the politics. =A0Is > > generally how this group is ? > > If so does anybody know of a UK group where there is discussion about > > rides, routes and bike stuff ? =A0That's what I was looking for when I > > subscribed and I have been waiting to see if general level of > > discussion is all about the politics of cycling as it has appeared to > > me. > > Like a lot of usenet, I think u.r.c. is in decline. =A0We've also got an > outbreak of trolls, though I think the worst of it may be temporary.

I appreciate that you don't like my style, as you don't like your anti- motorist prejudices being so brutally and candidly exposed. But perhaps you could explain why you think Sir Jeremy, JNugent and Matt B are trolls. Is it just because they disagree with you? If not, can you name a single example of a poster on this newsgroup who is against speed cameras (and/or other anti-motorist measures) and isn't a "troll" according to you?

Thought not. Proves my point really.

> If you place questions or pieces about rides, routes and bike bits I expe= ct > they will be read, commented, replied, etc.

Topics about politics get far more replies than others, even when you take out the posts of the "trolls" (non-motorist-haters). That's what you'd expect in a newsgroup which is uk.rec.anti-motorist in all but name.

If there's one thing worse than being anti-motorist, it's being such a coward that you call yourself "pro-cyclist" instead.