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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!k4g2000pre.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Message-ID:  From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.net.news.moderation Subject: Re: What is going on? Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 17:04:12 -0800 (PST) References:   <1aa44fed-5c53-4a65-9c0b-3d62e377f1bc@o32g2000prb.googlegroups.com> <8qp3deFns5U1@mid.individual.net> Lines: 43 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 1296522252 31739 127.0.0.1 (1 Feb 2011 01:04:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2011 01:04:12 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: k4g2000pre.googlegroups.com; posting-host=82.71.49.124; posting-account=7_6kYAkAAABD6HrjM0VxehwvZOKMxm4g User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Opera/9.80 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.5.8; U; en) Presto/2.7.62 Version/11.00,gzip(gfe) Bytes: 3017 Xref: perfectly-safe.chapmancentral.co.uk uk.net.news.moderation:36593

On Feb 1, 12:46=A0am, "kat"  wrote: > Nuxx Bar  said > > > > > > > On Jan 31, 10:24 pm, Judith  wrote: > >> " from the general posting style and particularly > >> punctuation" > > >> Someone has written in sentences - has used two full stops, two > >> hyphens, capital letters and a question mark. > > > Not saying it was you, but the person concerned did seem to do a > > couple of things similar to you: > > > - Regularly using hyphens to break up sentences. > > - Not always ending questions with question marks (e.g. "Well that is > > quite scientific isn't it." instead of "Well that is quite scientific > > isn't it?") > > > Of course, some other people also do one or both of those things, but > > if one were not to do those things then the moderators would be less > > likely to make the mistake of thinking they were you (in typical > > paranoid fashion). > > I do both of them. =A0I often use hyphens in sentences, and that "questio= n" > above wasn't a question. =A0I would more likely use an exclamation mark a= t the > end of it.

Fair enough. It certainly wasn't meant as a criticism (if I did ever want to criticise Judith for any reason then I'd do it by email for a start, but I haven't and I doubt I will), and I find Judith's posts perfectly readable and well-written, I was just saying what I thought might have made the moderators think the punctuation was similar.

Of course, as we don't appear to be dealing with creatures of logic, it's probably of limited use trying to determine what's going on in their minds. Maybe they think it was you now you've said the above. ;-)