Contacting an administrator

dannyfrankszzz said:

Hi, I need to contact an administrator about an issue - how do I go
about this? I've already asked in the 'tell us what you think' forum
but no answer thus far. Please advise.

You should realise that u.r.c is part of Usenet and not actually
anything to do with cyclingforums: they have just put a pipe from a news
feed to their web site. So this is the wrong place to ask...

Pete.
--
Peter Clinch Medical Physics IT Officer
Tel 44 1382 660111 ext. 33637 Univ. of Dundee, Ninewells Hospital
Fax 44 1382 640177 Dundee DD1 9SY Scotland UK
net [email hidden] http://www.dundee.ac.uk/~pjclinch/

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Quoted message said:

Hi, I need to contact an administrator about an issue - how do I go
about this? I've already asked in the 'tell us what you think' forum
but no answer thus far. Please advise.

Cut out the middleman and go to uk.rec.cycling direct rather than
through a crappy (IMO) repackager of uk.rec.cycling ;-)

--
Tony

" I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong."
Bertrand Russell

Hello moderator, feel free to delete this post as it's no longer necessary.

I found the 'contact us' link on the main page: http://cyclingforums.com/

Thanks.

dannyfrankszzz said:

Hello moderator, feel free to delete this post as it's no longer
necessary.

<To the tune of Camp Granada)

Hello Mudder! Hello Fadder!
Here I am, a right banana!
Thought I was in,
a cycling forum.
Asked a question then decided to ignore em!

In article <[email hidden]>, marc
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dannyfrankszzz said:

Hello moderator, feel free to delete this post as it's no longer
necessary.

<To the tune of Camp Granada)

Hello Mudder! Hello Fadder!
Here I am, a right banana!
Thought I was in,
a cycling forum.
Asked a question then decided to ignore em!

The replies probably hadn't got back to his crappy web interface when he
posted that.

dannyfrankszzz said:

Hello moderator, feel free to delete this post as it's no longer
necessary.

You can't delete posts to netnews. To be fair to cyclingforums, they
do explain this in the faq about their web -> news gateways.

And to be fair to you, if you've never come across netnews before
it's not obvious that uk.rec.cycling isn't really part of cyclingforums

Arthur

--
Arthur Clune PGP/GPG Key: http://www.clune.org/pubkey.txt
The struggle of people against power is the struggle
of memory against forgetting - Milan Kundera

dannyfrankszzz <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

Hello moderator, feel free to delete this post as it's no longernecessary.

There is no moderator.

Cheers,
Luke

--
Red Rose Ramblings, the diary of an Essex boy in
exile in Lancashire <http://www.shrimper.org.uk>

dannyfrankszzz said:

Hello moderator, feel free to delete this post as it's no longer
necessary.

I found the 'contact us' link on the main page:
http://cyclingforums.com/

Thanks.

Bwahahahahaha.
Please get a clue and save yourself, before it's too late.

--
Mike
Van Tuyl titanium Dura ace 10
Fausto Coppi aluminium Ultegra 10
Raleigh Record sprint mongrel
Huissoon project bike (in bits, natch)

in message <[email hidden]>,
dannyfrankszzz ([email hidden]'😉

Quoted message said:

Hi, I need to contact an administrator about an issue - how do I go
about this? I've already asked in the 'tell us what you think' forum
but no answer thus far. Please advise.

You can't contact an administrator, there isn't one. Usenet doesn't work
like that. You can contact the administrator of your part of your
particular node, but that's unlikely to do you any good because Usenet is
a vast decentralised system with no overall governance.

Oh? You thought you were posting to a forum on a website? You're not. The
owners of cyclingforums.com are scum who parasitise on Usenet, making
money out of misleading ignorant users like you.

--
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;; Want to know what SCO stands for?
;; http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20030605

in message <[email hidden]>,
dannyfrankszzz ([email hidden]'😉

Quoted message said:

Hello moderator, feel free to delete this post as it's no longer
necessary.

There is no moderator. Welcome to the real world.

--
[email hidden] (Simon Brooke) http://www.jasmine.org.uk/~simon/
;; If any council in the country has anything to say to cyclists
;; about cycle paths, it should be: "We are terribly, terribly sorry."
- Zoe Williams, The Guardian, 13th Sept 2006

On 26/10/2007 19:42, Simon Brooke said,

Quoted message said:

Oh? You thought you were posting to a forum on a website? You're not. The
owners of cyclingforums.com are scum who parasitise on Usenet, making
money out of misleading ignorant users like you.

They charge for a free service??????

--
Paul Boyd
http://www.paul-boyd.co.uk/

dannyfrankszzz <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

Hi, I need to contact an administrator about an issue - how do I go
about this? I've already asked in the 'tell us what you think' forum
but no answer thus far. Please advise.

My advice is to send me a large suitcase full of used fivers and I'll
consider your issue :/

(Well, I'm sure I'm an administrator of something.)

In article <[email hidden]>, Paul Boyd
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On 26/10/2007 19:42, Simon Brooke said,

Quoted message said:

Oh? You thought you were posting to a forum on a website? You're not. The
owners of cyclingforums.com are scum who parasitise on Usenet, making
money out of misleading ignorant users like you.

They charge for a free service??????

They take our content and attach Google Ads to it.

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Quoted message said:

They take our content and attach Google Ads to it.

I wonder what would happen if we were all to write to them asserting our
copyright and asking them to pay us a royalty or desist from breaching
it?

--
Tony

" I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong."
Bertrand Russell

in message <[email hidden]>, Paul Boyd

(') said:

On 26/10/2007 19:42, Simon Brooke said,

Quoted message said:

Oh? You thought you were posting to a forum on a website? You're not.
The owners of cyclingforums.com are scum who parasitise on Usenet,
making money out of misleading ignorant users like you.

They charge for a free service??????

No, they surround your content (and mine) with paid advertisements - which
makes a nice profit for them off the back of our effort. I wouldn't mind
if they used part of that money to add value for Usenet users - hosting a
big public node, for example - but they don't. They're pure parasites.

--
[email hidden] (Simon Brooke) http://www.jasmine.org.uk/~simon/

Morning had broken, and there was nothing left for us to do
but pick up the pieces.

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They take our content and attach Google Ads to it.

I wonder what would happen if we were all to write to them asserting our
copyright and asking them to pay us a royalty or desist from breaching
it?

Try it and see?

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All original content remains the copyright of the author. It may not be
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In article <[email hidden]>, Tony Raven
[email hidden] says...

Quoted message said:

I wonder what would happen if we were all to write to them asserting our
copyright and asking them to pay us a royalty or desist from breaching
it?

Try it and see?

I have done having made fair use of your copyright to set this reply in
context ;-) I await their reply.

--
Tony

" I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong."
Bertrand Russell

Rob Morley said:

In article <[email hidden]>, Tony Raven
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>
They take our content and attach Google Ads to it.

I wonder what would happen if we were all to write to them asserting our
copyright and asking them to pay us a royalty or desist from breaching
it?

Try it and see?

**
All original content remains the copyright of the author. It may not be
used for commercial purposes, including publication on any web page with
any commercial or advertising content, without prior permission.
**

You would have to ensure that your posts were not carried by any
subscription news server. That includes the one that I use.

Cheers,
Luke

--
Red Rose Ramblings, the diary of an Essex boy in
exile in Lancashire <http://www.shrimper.org.uk>

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Quoted message said:

You would have to ensure that your posts were not carried by any
subscription news server. That includes the one that I use.

Whoops, me too. :-)