Does this group have any moderators?

You're new here, aren't you?

Well, since he failed to prefix the subject line with [OT], perhaps the moderators should ban him.

Note to the OP: GoogleGroups are not Usenet; nor Usenet, GoogleGroups. Virtually all Usenet groups are unmoderated; the few that are usually have an explicit ".moderated" in the group name.

And not very smart, as evidenced by complaining while posting through Google.

Un, don't use GoogleGroups! Easy solution, a proper Usenet supplier is the way to go.

good luck

OK, you are hereby banned.

There comes a time, in everyone's life, when they need to cut the apron strings. No longer do your meals appear magically at the appointed time. No longer does your be get made while your gone. No longer is your laundry permanently clean. No longer does the trash disappear as if by magic. It's now like that with Usenet news. You have to do your own house cleaning, according to your own tastes. Nobody will do it for you, especially for free. However, if you find the filtering exercise to be beyond your abilities or beneath your station in life, your can always hire a personal moderator, who will pre-filter your Usenet news into a form that is more to your liking.

Unfortunately, Google Groups will never suffice if you're expecting an unpolluted Usenet experience. I suggest you use Forte Agent as a news reader:

and subscribe to a Usenet news service that offers spam filtering. You can also set up your own filter criteria to eliminate postings by those you find disagreeable and on subjects you find distasteful. I'm not going to recommend a particular Usenet news service. This is a rather old list:

but should work as a start.

Indeed - GoogleGroups is a only one gateway to the Usenet, plus Google has the Usenet archives.

John :-#)#

legitimate

moderators please

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groups.

oh! so you are the moderatornatorer ... great job moderatornatorering

Thanks. Just doing as he asked.