On 2009-05-08, Ian Jackson wrote:

In article ,
Rudi wrote:

B) An alternative response is to just start up an alternative
moderated news-group. This however runs the risk of splitting the
cycling community into those on one group and those on another

This is the conventional approach in this situation. I don't think
there would be too much difficulty getting people to move over to the
new group. We should have a regular FAQ posting inviting people to
the moderated group.

I think this is an excellent idea. (Among other things, it answers
the complaint that moderation is censorship; anyone can still post
anything to the unmoderated group.)