In article , Bill Ogden
wrote:
FWIW, I have found moderated groups to be not very useful unless they
are for a very narrowly defined topic. I avoid them when possible.

Must admit that I don't often get involved in moderated groups either.
news.groups.moderated has had more posts from me than any other, and I've
only posted there twice.

Is there a way to have a newsgroup server reject all cross-posted
messages? The cross posting to multiple news groups seems to be the
source of much of the garbage. I suspect the whole newsgroup concept
would be improved if cross posting were automatically eliminated. (I
notice this message is being cross posted !)

Couldn't say for certain, but some news clients will filter out
crosspostings on download. The one I use, for example, does it.

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