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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!x1g2000yqb.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Message-ID: <0dc879a1-22c4-45b1-9445-6664266b4152@x1g2000yqb.googlegroups.com> From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.net.news.moderation,uk.net.news.config Subject: Re: uk.rec.cycling.moderated - RFD withdrawn Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2011 09:43:18 -0700 (PDT) References: <1jyl64f.nubaqy1t08018N%real-not-anti-spam-address@apple-juice.co.uk> Lines: 21 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 1300898599 4458 127.0.0.1 (23 Mar 2011 16:43:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2011 16:43:19 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: x1g2000yqb.googlegroups.com; posting-host=82.71.49.124; posting-account=WrLs9woAAAD151hWKA9yknAtxFHW4kE4 User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110303 Firefox/3.6.15,gzip(gfe) Bytes: 2250 Xref: perfectly-safe.chapmancentral.co.uk uk.net.news.moderation:39332 uk.net.news.config:66076

On Mar 23, 2:15=A0pm, real-not-anti-spam-addr...@apple-juice.co.uk (D.M. Procida) wrote: > > If they can't manage this, a new RFD will be published and taken to a > vote.

Jackson now faces a terrible dilemma: publicly back down over the bans and other problems, or lose control of his "moderated" group altogether. I almost feel sorry for him, but thereagain, this is (or should be) the inevitable consequence of attempting to run a private club on public servers.

My prediction is that Judith and I will remain banned, and an RFD will be needed. I just can't see Jackson having the humility to reverse the decision: I think he'd rather take a chance on the RFD going his way, however slim that chance is. If he has to suffer defeat then I'm sure he'd rather be defiant to the last and make a martyr of himself.

Any RFD should retain Eleanor Blair as a moderator, plus (depending on who they are) any other current "moderator" who comes out against the bans and Jackson's iron fist.