On 22/06/2017 00:40, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:


Do you know of any other moderated newsgroup still running?


I subscribe to two web based groups that are moderated and both have
been free of "crap" for the years. Both require money to maintain the
servers and supply the required bandwidth. One requests user donations
around £150 month and also has sponsor with the proviso that no postings
are allowed that provide links to direct commercial rivals of the
sponsor. By default, one only allows a sign-up and posting from UK IPs
(relaxed at the discretion of the moderator). The other only allows one
sign-up per user, perhaps policed by checking IP. Both require a login
and password to post.

My experience with moderated Usenet groups in the past is not too
positive. The moderator was often some self appointed jobsworth who has
no authority in the real world but had ultimate power over the group.
Usually these groups were the first to die.

Does a moderator become "responsible" for what is published and
therefore useful posts, say, suggesting that certain companies are dodgy
or rip-off merchants would be moderated out of existence?

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