----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Stevens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CANALS LIST" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 8:21 PM Subject: Re: [canals-list] Re: Recording history (longish)
> > At this point, Mabbett, who at that time managed a Birmingham Council web > site, > cross-posted Dral's reply, out of context, to the Birmingham Local > newsgroup, not one of the most polite in the Usenet community. As a > self-appointed netcop, he should have known better than that, in my view. He had a habit of doing things like that, and always adopted an air of injured innocence when called on it. After about the tenth time it becomes less than convincing. If the usenet dictionary doesn't have an entry for Troll which says see: Andy Mabbet, it should. > The criticisms there, without the context, annoyed some of the Birmingham > group members who responded vigorously, and in some case abusively, both > on > the two newsgroups and, in some cases by direct e-mail to Dral. > > Dral went ballistic - justifiably in my view - and that's where the > row > started, and went on for ages. I sided with Dral as I was also trialling > material for my website and shared his strong concerns about copyright, > which some Usenet enthusiasts, Maggot included, seemed to think didn't > apply > to Usenet. > Dral didn't help his case by his attitude among other things, however I'm not going to drag the whole thing up again and provoke the usual s*it flinging, anyone who is interested enough can find it in the google.groups archives. -- Niall
