On Sat, 1 Mar 2008 02:06:17 -0800 (PST), terry
wrote:

16 of last 20 posts to this news group have advertising content!

While realizing this is a not a group 'controlled' by a chairperson
etc. should not someone at the organization hosting it do something to
immediately remove advertising?

There is also no organization hosting it. That's the way Usenet
works, other than for a few moderated groups which do have usually a
team of people functioning as the chair you refer to. Most of those
are political, national, or religious and most of their spam is hate
mail, advertising, or evangelism.

Usenet is still a better format than mailing lists.

AHR is much higher volume than any moderated group I know, and
moderation would be far too much work. Also, moderators tend to turn
into petty tyrants.

Disappointed. Cheerio.

Buck up. 30 years ago there was no Usenet at all.