🚀 go-pugleaf

Wayne W. McDougall (system@codeworks.gen.nz) wrote:
> 
> > People have a right to know that you are filtering their news for 
> > them.
> 
> Ummmm, nope. I'm not filtering their choose for them. Think about it.
> People choose to filter their own news by say, subscribing to just
> nz.general. If they didn't want a filter they would read every newsgroup.
> What I am doing is to help defend their right to choose their filter and
> to have that choice honoured.

Just who the hell was it who died and made you moderator of nz.*?

> ...and here we disagree. I do not believe the readership at large needs to
> know specific details about messages that it has already chosen as not
> being messages it wants to see.

The readership at large sure as hell does need to know when someone sets
themselves up as retro-moderator. Where was this appointment discussed?
Where was the vote appointing you.

If you have no mandate from the readership at large you are completely out
of line.

> Nope. It was a well-considered decision, where, in order to comply with
> your increasingly strident requests, I considered the benefits outweighed
> the costs. I think a specific review of the very small number of cases
> would indicate that it can be justified. I don't expect you to agree.

I don't see *one* *single* person agreeing with your action. In this case
the cure is definitely worse than the disease.