Accessing Usenet News Groups

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On Jul/21/2012 2:5840 AM, Basil Chupin wrote:
> On 21/07/12 05:03, Robert Holtzm wrote:
>> On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 12:15:04AM +1000, Basil Chupin wrote:
>>> WARNING. Usenet newsgroups are not moderated and "anything and
>>> everything goes" - its a "free for all". Some of the things stated
>>> in the is equivalent to what you hear coming from the mouths of
>>> politicians :-D .
>> Not true of all newsgroups! Some are moderated and some are not. The
>> alt.x.x groups aren't. Some of the rest aren't.
>
> Oh, OK. All the ones I used to read were not moderated.
>
> (And I cannot imagine how, or why, someone would go about moderating a
> newsgroup :-) .)
>
>


In a well-moderated newsgroup a moderator maintains minimally polite 
relevance. Recently in one such newsgroup, an arrogant teenager making 
snide comments and announcing himself a member of the development group 
was publicly reproached and probably privately told to restrict his 
comments and claims, because his subsequent contributions were fewer and 
quite modest. Hopefully, moderation will make him a better adult.


Often a moderator will announce the closing of a thread that has become 
irrelevant to the group description by off-topic or impolite discussion. 
The moderator(s) performs a difficult and time-consuming task out of 
loyalty to the group and topic.


In binary groups moderation principally has to watch out for embedded 
malware in contributions. Of course, a moderator has the right and 
responsibility to bar harmful contributions and contributors.


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