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On Mar 5, 12:09=A0pm, Clive George  wrote: > > URC is now the main haven for the cyclist bashing, which means if you > support the idea of having somewhere on usenet for UK-based bike > discussion, URCM is the best bet.

Plenty of bike discussion on URC, but I guess you don't like the spread of opinions being much better than it used to be. I think it's a friendlier place to be now, and it's telling that the worst of the irrational car-haters/bike supremacists have retreated somewhere where they can control the discussions and so not be constantly outmaneouvred.

> Of course if you're not interested in keeping usenet alive, what are you > doing posting here?

Oh Clive. You know that's below the belt. Surely you're not taking Sara's departure from URCM out on Roger, especially nearly a year later? I know you admire Jackson but you don't have to be that much like him.

> It takes a surprisingly small amount of signal to dramatically change a > groups character. We're seeing it one way at the moment - if you were at > all interested, you could help swing it the other.

I thought it was only "signal" when you agreed with it, and "noise" otherwise? BTW you missed out the apostrophe in "group's". Try to write correctly please.