On Sun, 18 Oct 2009 13:39:10 +0100, Clive George wrote:

"Peter Parry" wrote in message
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On Sun, 18 Oct 2009 11:02:08 +0100, The Natural Philosopher
wrote:

For once Steve is making a valid point, albeit not very well. The UK
Usenet committee has successfully overseen group creation in the
UK.hierarchy for a long time. Three or four individuals, one of whom
was previously removed from the votetakers group because he only
wanted to accept votes from technically acceptable people, another
previously failed candidate and two no one has ever heard of and who
have previously shown no interest in the uk.hierarchy have, mainly as
result of getting annoyed about a group they wanted getting created,
decided to wreck the system. (That wasn't a misprint - they really
are annoyed they got what they wanted, or more particularly that it
didn't happen the instant they wanted it, so want to put a spanner in
the works and take over the wreck.)

Wreck the system implies malicious intent. Do you really believe that?

The discussions which have taken place recently in unnm with protagonists
from urc does nothing to dissuade me from that view point.

The common factor is they are all combat cyclists, three use a server,
chiark, run by one of them and all appear to be like minded "mates".
They have put themselves forward as candidates for the uk.Usenet
committee and will no doubt whip in herds of cyclists with no idea of
what is involved to support them.

I doubt that very much.

If you could avoid treating cyclists as some alien species, that would be
appreciated. Even Steve Firth is a cyclist, though he denies it.

It has nothing to do with cyclists per se. It has everything to do with
some extreme polarised views within that community.

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