Nuxx:9708ad87-700c-439f-997c-4838d17b2560@f36g2000hsa.googlegroups.com

Path: number1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!postnews.google.com!f36g2000hsa.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Message-ID: <9708ad87-700c-439f-997c-4838d17b2560@f36g2000hsa.googlegroups.com> From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling Subject: Re: Remved .... why Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 01:06:54 -0700 (PDT) References:  Lines: 35 Organization: http://groups.google.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 88.105.145.93 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1217578015 23098 127.0.0.1 (1 Aug 2008 08:06:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 08:06:55 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: f36g2000hsa.googlegroups.com; posting-host=88.105.145.93; posting-account=7_6kYAkAAABD6HrjM0VxehwvZOKMxm4g User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070208 Firefox/3.0.1,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Bytes: 2785 Xref: perfectly-safe.chapmancentral.co.uk uk.rec.cycling:660055

On Jul 31, 4:29=A0pm, "Barb"  wrote: > I just asked the question why a thread with a series of posts relating to= a > certain politician had been removed from the server. > > In the last few minutes, not only has the post actually disappeared > altogether, but my post was not posted. > > Censorship?

This newsgroup is not moderated, and for that, we should be truly thankful. (Since many of the more prolific posters in this newsgroup are on an anti-motorist crusade, one or more of them would have made sure that they were moderators, with the result that true facts about cameras, any suggestions that anyone was anti-motorist, and the "wrong" opinions in general would not get through. Not that they're scared of losing debates or anything.)

On the other hand, the reason that Chapman only posts here, and not in any (moderated) forums, is that he's been banned from all of the latter. (He's actually been banned more than Spindrift, and going by his refusal to answer basic questions, his unbelievable offensiveness and his general underhand debating "technique", you can see why.) So maybe he would have been banned from here as well.

Imagine how much of a better place this would have been by now without the anti-motorist nucleus of Chapman and Spindrift. Having said that, they would have just muscled in on some other poor innocent newsgroup instead, so maybe it's best just to let them poison this place. After all, the real cycling advocates in here have only got themselves to blame for not making a stand against them.

Cheers and thanks

Guy Cuthbertson