From: vanguard.news@yahooNIX.com 
  
 "Tristan Miller"  wrote in message 
 news:1673775.fhWplXsOMd@ID-187157.News.Individual.NET... 
 > Greetings. 
 > 
 > In article , Vanguard wrote: 
 >> - Why are moderated groups not CLEARLY identified rather than require 
 >> discovery (i.e., why aren't they named and easily identified as 
 >> moderated groups)? 
 > 
 > Uh, they *are* clearly identified, at least in the Big 8.  All 
 > moderated 
 > newsgroups have the string " (moderated)" at the end of their 
 > description. 
 > If your newsreader is not showing this, then it is broken. 
  
  
 Visit a few other newsservers.  Not all (maybe not many) include 
 description when downloading the newsgroups list. 
  
 AIOE: no descriptions 
 Giganews: no descriptions (*) 
 Infoave: a few groups have descriptions 
 Microsoft private: no descriptions 
 Microsoft public: no descriptions 
 Spamcop: most have descriptions 
 Teranews: extremely few descriptions 
  
 (*) Can't be sure Giganews doesn't provide descriptions.  I'm over quota 
 and cannot reset the newsgroups list until a month from now.  I might 
 not have had the option to also retrieve description enabled when I last 
 retrieved the newsgroups list from Giganews. 
  
 Just because the NNTP client issues the "LIST NEWSGROUPS" command (RFC 
 2980, sec 2.1.6) doesn't mean the provider maintained the file that 
 provides the descriptions.  Not every user (and maybe not many users) 
 get descriptions for the newsgroups, and of those that get descriptions 
 they may not have all the descriptions. 
  
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