Re: Responsibility for the health of Usenet
On Tue, 3 Nov 2009 14:08:34 +0000, Peter J Ross <pjr@example.invalid>
wrote:
>In uk.net.news.management on Sat, 31 Oct 2009 23:40:31 +0000, Molly
>Mockford wrote:
>
>> At 23:38:02 on Sat, 31 Oct 2009, Cherry Chapstick
>> <azure@invalid.really.really> wrote in
>> :
>>
>>>The committee could be more active in persuading users to propose
>>>groups or rm groups.
>>
>> The Committee could go out every Friday and have a jolly good lunch.
>
>Surely that would be an insult to the BH inflight catering facilities?
>
>> Neither of those things happen to be within the Committee's remit.
>>
>> By the way, in the spirit of everything being open and above-board, it
>> occurs to me to wonder whether you have a name? Or do you always hide
>> behind that nym?
>
>Now that's unfair, IMO. There are enough scare stories in the media
>about the Internet to make a desire for privacy understandable.
Indeed - if the chiark posse get elected - then they will be asking
for suggestions from their colleagues.
Simon Brooke:
"Personally if I was all powerful my moderation policy would simply be
to require every person who contributed to discussion to publish a
verifiably correct real world home address where they actually lived,
and then let them get on with the debate."
--
I believe that if I am driving or cycling there is no chance of a child running out in front of me and causing an accident.
Simon Brooke.
date: Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:48:44 +0000
author: Judith M Smith
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