From: CUTjeffrey_blakeney@yahoo.ca   
      
   On 2021-04-12 1:54 p.m., Scott Alfter wrote:   
   > A small number of groups are (or were) moderated.  Posts to those groups are   
   > emailed to the moderator for approval; only the moderator is allowed to post   
   > directly to the group.   
   >   
   > It's been so long since I've subscribed to a moderated group that I can't   
   > think of one to name as an example. :-) Something tells me   
   > rec.arts.startrek.info might have been one.  I think there was also a   
   > moderated group somewhere under rec.humor.*.   
      
   Never heard of a moderated usenet newsgroup before (or I did but it was   
   so long ago I forgot about it :) but I just did a quick Google search   
   and sure enough, usenet does have support for it.   
      
   I'm not sure I would ever want to write a usenet server knowing that it   
   is the server's responsibility to e-mail the moderator address instead   
   of just posting to the group.   
      
   I haven't looked at the specifications of a usenet server but it seems   
   like it wouldn't be too hard to get around the limitation of the   
   moderator being the only one to allow posts.  You can create a server   
   that doesn't honour the "e-mail instead of post" thing and, if needed,   
   fake the headers to look like it is coming from the moderator using the   
   headers from messages already in the newsgroup.   
      
   > comp.sys.apple2, of course, isn't one of those moderated groups.   
      
   Most usenet newsgroups aren't moderated.   
      
   Also, as the original post was about getting rid of spam, even in a   
   moderated group, if the moderators let something through by mistake,   
   there isn't much that can be done to remove it.  A delete request can be   
   sent but it won't necessarily be done by all servers.   
      
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