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Path: num2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!num1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!number.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!postnews.google.com!k8g2000yqn.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Message-ID:  From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.net.news.config,uk.rec.cycling Subject: Re: 2nd RFD: create moderated newsgroup uk.rec.cycling.moderated Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2009 09:17:50 -0700 (PDT) References:  <1tba455acdkvasjg79cp77i882dnflruk9@4ax.com>  Lines: 58 Organization: http://groups.google.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 81.156.150.242 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1246119470 2569 127.0.0.1 (27 Jun 2009 16:17:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2009 16:17:50 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: k8g2000yqn.googlegroups.com; posting-host=81.156.150.242; posting-account=7_6kYAkAAABD6HrjM0VxehwvZOKMxm4g User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.11) Gecko/2009060215 Firefox/3.0.11 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Bytes: 3875 Xref: perfectly-safe.chapmancentral.co.uk uk.net.news.config:54179 uk.rec.cycling:5724

On Jun 27, 12:23 am, chris French  wrote: > In message <1tba455acdkvasjg79cp77i882dnflr...@4ax.com>, Tom Crispin >  writes > > > > >On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:45:43 +0100, Ian Jackson > > wrote: > > >[Newsgroup line fixed with urc added] > > >>-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > >>                   2ND REQUEST FOR DISCUSSION (RFD) > > >>This is a formal Request For Discussion (RFD) for the following changes > >>in the uk.* Usenet hierarchy: > > >>          create moderated newsgroup uk.rec.cycling.moderated > > >Posting history of the moderated group: alt.culture.china > >http://groups.google.co.uk/group/alt.culture.china/about?hl=en > > >Posting history of the unmoderated group: soc.culture.china > >http://groups.google.co.uk/group/soc.culture.china/about?hl=en > > >Posting history of the unmoderated group: uk.rec.cycling > >http://groups.google.co.uk/group/uk.rec.cycling/about?hl=en > > >It seems that the group alt.culture.china became a moderated group on > >12 June 1998. At that time the unmoderated group soc.culture.china > >was receiving about 7,000 posts per month. > > >In its heyday, the moderated group never managed much more than an > >average of half a dozen posts a day. > > >The moderated group is now dead. The unmoderated group continues with > >about 4000 posts per month. > > Or maybe you could consider uk.legal.moderated, or maybe > comp.lang.c++.moderated for example, both of which seem to be successful > moderated groups.

But no doubt they became moderated in response to a genuine trolling problem, rather than in response to too many people posting opinions which some people would rather not read, because they know they're true, and rather than admit to being wrong they would prefer to just censor anyone who dares to point out how reality is.

Why won't they admit to being wrong? Well, some of them are pursuing hidden agendas which rely on pretending things are a certain way when they're not; some of them are just too damn arrogant to *ever* publicly admit to being wrong about *anything*, no matter how obvious it is; some of them are just Looney Tunes, like Spindrift. But all of them are complicit in the downfall of URC, and if they would just either bugger off or admit that they were wrong and stop trying to gag those who are right, URC would be how everyone claims to want it to be.