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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!aotearoa.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!feed.xsnews.nl!border-1.ams.xsnews.nl!feeder.news-service.com!xlned.com!feeder1.xlned.com!zen.net.uk!hamilton.zen.co.uk!shaftesbury.zen.co.uk.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID:  From: Guy Cuthbertson  Newsgroups: uk.net.news.moderation Subject: Re: JMS is obnoxious ... Date: Sun, 6 Jun 2010 21:26:41 +0100 References:  <872cldF5oqU6@mid.individual.net> Lines: 28 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 100606-0, 06/06/2010), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean Organization: Zen Internet NNTP-Posting-Host: d1a4be20.news.zen.co.uk X-Trace: DXC=J7L@Cn@53OZC_bB@9K;lY_nok4Z\f?JbkXEn, stillyet+nntp@googlemail.com says... > > On Sun, 06 Jun 2010 17:02:08 +0100, JMS wrote: > > > lying, two faced, malicious,awkward, was the sole reason for the > > formation of URCM, the root cause of all evil in newsgroups, will be > > personally responsible for the failure of usenet, and probably the > > failure of the western world as we know it. > > When Guy accuses you of being 'the sole reason for the formation of URCM' > he is being altogether too modest.

So why is he continually being treated as "one of the boys" by at least one URCM moderator (e.g. being given "inflammatory posting rights")? There has been more than one occasion when he has insulted someone whose opinions are "unfashionable", had his post manually approved, and the victim has then been denied the chance to respond (despite posting something far more acceptable). It's happened far too many times for it to be anything but deliberate.

If you think he's so responsible for the formation of URCM then why does he get away with, err, murder while Judith is blocked? It just adds weight to the argument that moderation is done according to a poster's opinions, and propensity to speak unwelcome truths, rather than their perceived potential to be disruptive and/or cause trouble. If you don't want people to think that then you're going to have to explain things like the above.