On Sat, 9 Apr 2016, rickman wrote:

On 4/8/2016 7:03 PM, Roger Hayter wrote:
Rob wrote:

rickman wrote:
The post Announcing the 2016 Michigan QSO Party appeared first on KB6NUs
Ham Radio Blog.

To the moderators of rec.radio.amateur.moderated; Please stop posting
these blog echos here. I'd like to see this group be a useful place to
discuss homebrew equipment, but your posts drown out any useful content
that might happen.

Can't you stick to your own moderated group? You have managed to kill
it off with virtually no postings other than the blog echos you seem
obsessed with.

It appears you do not understand "moderated newsgroups"...

When someone, e.g. KB6NU, posts a message to multiple newsgroups that
include a moderated group, e.g.:
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.moderated,rec.radio.amateur.home brew
the news posting software will recognize this and instead of posting
it will mail the message to the moderator of the moderated group, who
will then post the message in both groups.

So, when you see a multiposted message in a moderated and non-moderated
group, it will appear like it is being posted by the moderator, but in
reality there is someone else who has originally submitted the message.

In this case that may be KB6NU or someone else who likes to relay those
blog messages to usenet, but the poster is not necessarily related
to the moderator of the group.

Firstly we do know they are related and work together. Secondly, it is
the choice of moderators to allow cross-posts to their newsgroup: many
don't.

I found my reply to the original message showed up in r.r.a.m, so either the
reply escaped moderation or the moderators have moderated their policies on
moderation. lol

Yes, I was surprised your post appeared. My experience is that if they
reject it, the post is lost despite the cross-posting. So the reply just
disappears, unless it is approved. It's an odd situation, since they keep
telling us that cross-posting is allowed to the moderated newsgroup,
though nobody asked us, but if we gripe in response to their cross-posts,
chances are good the post disappears.

So I generally take out the moderated newsgroup when replying.

One of the things I've thought about doing is doing an "RFD" in the
newsgroup proposal newsgroup, about recalling the moderators to the
moderated newsgroup. Not that I care about them moderating that
newsgroup, but it would be an attempt to make them responsible for all the
junk they are posting.

Michael