On Wed, 4 Mar 2009 17:15:15 -0800 (PST), anthony
> wrote:

>Is anyone interested in converting this to a moderated group? I'm not
>sure of the process involved, but would be happy to spend some minutes
>most days checking postings. As it is now, this group is so swamped
>with spam from clothing, watches and other sellers that it's very hard
>to find anything on-topic!


It requires more than a few minutes once in a while to weed out the
garbage. You have to set it up so that all the messages come to the
moderator and that person has to post them. I think it also takes
some special software to do it.

News servers that block obvious junk and/or a newsreader that allows
you to filter messages works well. Right now I see 10 messages in my
"not ignored" view and 7 in the "ignored" view. That is 15 days worth
of messages. The amount of spam is decreasing since several of the
major ISP's have discontinued Internet service.

I'm not sure that I want anyone else to decide what messages I should
read or not read.
--
Susan N.

"Moral indignation is in most cases two percent moral,
48 percent indignation, and 50 percent envy."
Vittorio De Sica, Italian movie director (1901-1974)