Contacting an administrator

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

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 , Paul Boyd
lid says...
On 26/10/2007 19:42, Simon Brooke 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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says...

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 , Paul Boyd
') wrote:

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

--
(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.

In article , Tony Raven
lid says...
In article ,
says...

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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says...
In article , Tony Raven
lid says...

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 wrote:

In article , Tony Raven
lid says...
In article ,
says...

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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, Ekul Namsob
says...

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. :-)

Simon Brooke wrote:

There is no moderator. Welcome to the real world.

dannyfrankszzz wrote:

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


And people wonder why UseNet gets a reputation for being
rude and unfriendly. Why take your annoyance with cyclingforums
out on someone who doesn't know about netnews?

Arthur

--
Arthur Clune