From: nomail@please.com 
  
 Thanks for the quick response.  I was hoping there was something more of 
 a tool or mechanism in place, like Yahoo Groups has.  But I know the 
 mechanics of Usenet and hoped there was something a bit more 
 sophisticalted in place.  I could just go and set it up on Yahoo, but I 
 wanted the wider audience. 
  
 Ahh, decisions.  Now where to go...  Thanks for the answer.... 
  
 Dave 
  
  
 Don Aitken wrote: 
 > On Thu, 26 May 2005 14:01:37 -0400, Dave R  wrote: 
 > 
 > 
 >>I am writing a proposal for a new group, and would like it to be 
 >>moderated such that I, or the designated moderator can either disallow, 
 >>or remove postings inappropriate for the newsgroup. 
 >> 
 >>How would one do this?  I'm using Thunderbird as my newsreader, but what 
 >>is the process by which a posting can either be pulled by a moderator, 
 >>or rejected outright? 
 >> 
 > 
 > You need to either do some reading up on the subject of how moderation 
 > works, or find somebody who knows the technicalities and can be 
 > persuaded to come on board as co-proponent or technical consultants. 
 > It can get quite complicated; this is a simplified outline. Moderated 
 > groups are set up so that messages which users post to the group are 
 > not, in fact, posted at all. Instead they are *emailed* to an address 
 > belonging to the moderators. The moderators then either post them, or 
 > not. The minumum you need is a secure reliable email address, which 
 > can cope with *lots* of spam, which it *will* get, and a newclient 
 > which enables you to add the "Approved:" header. Plus a willingness to 
 > cope with the unreasonable demands of the group's users, 27/7, 
 > forever. It helps *a lot* to use good moderation software, of which 
 > there is a fair amount out there, although it usually requires some 
 > technical knowledge to use it. Such systems are available for Windows 
 > machines, but the best ones (and, I think, all of the free ones) are 
 > for Linux. 
 > 
  
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