What your provider (or any other particular news server) carries is
meaningless. Many servers carry locally created groups for private
purposes, that are not distributed acroos the USEnet hierarchy. I have
a dozen or so on my own news servers at work.


Just off the top of my head I can think of one very tightly moderated
group that is carried on every news server I have ever come across....
rec.guns



Ed




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On Wed, 15 Apr 2009 20:06:37 -0400, jd wrote:

An interesting sidelight which I just discovered is that 6 groups with
the word "moderated" in their names are actually unmoderated.

Probably because no one's willing to do the work any more.

Too bad, because if someone was willing, your ass would be the first
to get dumped. troll

No troll at all. This is a problem for numerous groups -- not just USEnet, but
also Google Groups. One specific example is rec.autos.sport.f1 moderated. It has
a moderation group in name only -- just try getting a response from them, or
approval as a new poster -- which is why the group has withered away to no
appreciable traffic. I'm sure you can find others in a similar state.

-- Larry