(Steve Firth) gurgled happily, sounding much like
they were saying:

They attempted recently to create a moderated newsgroup

The vote for which was passed, by a huge margin - 128 votes to 24.

going their own way picking fights with the UK Usenet Committee over
each issue, and made a meal of the job.

Mmm. Strikes me that it was the "antis" who made a big deal of it.

Who - really - cares if there's a moderated cycling group or not?

Why WOULD you want to prevent it?

Don't like the idea? It's simple - don't post to it or read it. Nobody's
taking the unmoderated group away - and let's face it, the unmoderated
cycling group is a mess of trolls, almost as bad as uk.legal - whilst
uk.legal.moderated is a fairly sane and intelligent group.