"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. 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