Accessing Usenet News Groups

[Basil Chupin]

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 :-) .)

BC

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