"Lesley Robertson" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected] > > "Genjunkie" <[email protected]> wrote in message > news:[email protected] > > > > Cheryl seems to think the moderated group is "safer." > > > > I wonder about this. How "unsafe" can simple free verbal exchange > > really be? > > You obviously weren't around when the african group was subjected to a > sustained racist attack. I wasn't, but I am not surprised. With the precious freedom of speech we sometimes enjoy comes positive and negative things. Self control--and, if you don't have enough of that--a kill file are all you need to make any newsgroup "safe." Nobody has to read anything they do not want to read. > As many people have told you already, the main reason for moderation - > freely agreed to by the participants when the groups were formed, was to > make auto-indexing easier. > Lesley Robertson > Auto-indexing. Right.