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"Jill Stafford" wrote:

This newsgroup has dwindled into every thread turning into ****ing matches
and back biting. Does anybody moderate this group at all? Certainly it must
be or there would be more Viagra advertisements.

I'm wondering how many people are turned off by this hobby when they read
some of theses posts? Please don't anyone answer as it would only be
something negative and mean spirited.

So I guess that's it for the Grundig Sat 800 talk...

By the way, if there is a moderator here and you need some help, I would be
willing to volunteer part of my time to help moderate this group.

Nobody moderates the news group. You have to learn how to deal with the
public. You set your own lines by filtering the news group so you read
people you want to read and kill file the rest. If you can't do that
with Outlook then get yourself a dedicated news reader.

A news group has to be created with the moderating function. This news
group was created years ago as an open news group.

Problems with moderation is that people want their posts to show up
quickly. When the news servers are working well it is a little slower
than chat.

For you to moderate the news group all posts are mailed to you and then
you post the ones on the news server that meet the stated news group
rules. Are you willing to sit there a good part of the day and night to
do this? Probably not. You could start a white list of people that pass
through your computer to automatically post but you would have to go
back and cancel them if anyone on that list that got out of hand. I
can't think of an automated way to do this that would be satisfactory
and fast. You could cut down the crap on the news group but not all of
it and posting would get delayed.

Any problems that you have personally, computer problems, or ISP
problems, or problems with your news provider Giga news bring the entire
news group to a halt. This happens all the time on moderated news groups.

People already have the option of moderated news groups like the ones on
Yahoo. Go there and create one to your liking. It's easier than creating
a new Usenet news group. People have done this already so go check them
out.

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Telamon
Ventura, California