In message , Tom Crispin 
<kije.remove@this.bit.freeuk.com.munge> writes
>On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:56:31 +0000, Simon Brooke
><stillyet+nntp@googlemail.com> wrote:
>>This is posted on behalf of the moderators as a whole. Followups are set,
>>please observe this.
>>
>>  'We have rejected an otherwise useful message because of a deliberately
>>  controversial signature file. Please consider whether your signature
>>  file is suitable for this group.'
>
>Isn't "ex cathedra" and "on behalf of the moderators" an oxymoron?
>
>My understanding is that "ex cathedra", by definition, has to come
>from one person, literally, "from the chair".

Rather than "from the person on the throne"?

But that might raise a question of whether he'd flushed it afterwards.

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< Paul >