Nuxx:Be72c027-454d-4615-b0d7-ee488874adb7@n19g2000vba.googlegroups.com

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!n19g2000vba.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: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 14:00:44 -0700 (PDT) References:   <83h445d7reuhfo1r77iu175jlgq09vhcg2@4ax.com> <2V31m.410$Hu7.164@newsfe27.ams2>  Lines: 16 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: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1246050047 31377 127.0.0.1 (26 Jun 2009 21:00:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 21:00:47 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: n19g2000vba.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: 2118 Xref: perfectly-safe.chapmancentral.co.uk uk.net.news.config:54113 uk.rec.cycling:5660

On Jun 26, 5:41=A0pm, Ian Jackson  wrote: > In article <2V31m.410$Hu7....@newsfe27.ams2>, Ian  wro= te: > >Why should anyone need to own a bike to post on the new group? =A0 > >My understanding is that they do not. > > Indeed so. =A0urcm will welcome posts from non-cyclists.

...but only because it "has" to, and only as long as they don't voice the "wrong" opinions on certain subjects.

Are you going to stop evading the question on how the list of moderators was selected? A hand-picked list of your mates, was it, who were carefully vetted to ensure that they held the correct opinions?