John wrote:

Do agree with your desire to moderate but we did make a concious
decision not to as neither of us had the time (still don't) to put
into it every day. Though I have often wondered if there is a way to
change to a moderated group as the idiots have made it increasingly
difficult to find the good stuf.

I've been trying to establish an alternate method. My newsreader of
choice is Thunderbird. Wrote the Mozilla Foundation, authors of
Thunderbird, asking if they could develop a filtering system to watch
for cross posted messages. If we could control that, 90% of the problem
would disappear. So far not much progress. Hopefully they'll surprise
me someday.



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