Steve Firth wrote:
NT wrote:

why dont you tell people how you think this is relevant here

Because uk.d-i-y is part of UK Usenet and falls within the management of
the UK Usenet committee. You might not be interested in how UK Usenet is
administered or by whom, but others are. The hierarchyof newsgroups has
been well managed up to the present day by the UK Usenet Committee, and
it represents the users' interests to ISPs and to organisations such as
the Free University of Berlin, Google and even Altopia. The Committee
and Control handle such issues as the creation of new newsgroups, the
political management and interaction with the organisations that provide
the infrastructure that supports UK newsgroups.

The current move by the URC members is an attempted coup to take control
of the committee it's a carefully orchestrated last minute seizure. They
have about 150-180 sheep who will vote them in not because they are good
for the hierarchy as a whole but because they are cyclists. Their
credentials for running UK Usenet well are suspect. They attempted
recently to create a moderated newsgroup, going their own way picking
fights with the UK Usenet Committee over each issue, and made a meal of
the job.

If those are the people you want to be represented by, then it's your
choice and you can vote for them. However it's generally better to make
yourself informed about who wants to represent your interests and to
make a decision by voting or by appointing alternative candidates. That
choice should be made by as much of UK Usenet as possible, not by a
self-appointed clique.

Assuming that is true, what power do they have to dictate content here,
on UK.d-i-y ?

If it isn't moderated, anything goes, as it always has, on usenet.

If they want to start up uk.cyclists-are-saints and moderate it, all
well and good. Who gives a ****?