On Aug 24, 9:59 am, Dawlish  wrote:
> On Aug 24, 2:59 am, Tudor Hughes  wrote:
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> > On Aug 23, 10:25 am, John Hall  wrote:
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> > > In article
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> > >  RWood  writes:
> > > >Members of forums in my country are now citing this one as the worst
> > > >of all when it comes to constant moaning. It is in serious need of
> > > >moderators.
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> > > Even if this newsgroup could be converted into a moderated one, surely
> > > it wouldn't be the purpose of a moderator to prevent moaning? A
> > > moderator's job is normally seem as being to reject abusive and
> > > off-topic posts, and moaning about the weather doesn't fall under either
> > > of those categories..
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> > > The group must be doing something right if New Zealanders are so
> > > interested in it.
> > > --
> > > John Hall
> > >                 "Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history
> > >                  that man can never learn anything from history."
> > >                                           George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
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> >    This group doesn't need moderators most of the time but one use for
> > them readily springs to mind.
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> If we had moderators (perish the thought; moderation is ruining other
> sites by stifling discussion and imposing artificial moralities which
> now exist only on those sites, via the collective minds of the
> moderators) you would have perished Tudor. The calling of another
> contributor a c*** would have initiated an automatic ban on every
> weather forum on the Internet except for this ng. If you persist in
> your innuendo, you must expect to be reminded of your failings.- Hide quoted text -
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       I threw in a piece of rope and sure enough you hanged
yourself.  The point is that you have actually been banned from
certain groups and it is just faintly possible that the fault lies not
with the moderators thereof but with yourself.  Get a mirror.

Tudor Hughes.