"Doc Miller" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected] > It is possible to post an RFC and begin a movement to change a > newsgroup from unmoderated to moderated. It is a long process with > required steps and time limits but anyone can start the ball in > motion. > > That might make more sense than yet another newsgroup... > That's not the problem. Thanks to a glitch in the auto-moderation software, all of the Rootsweb moderated groups have been down for several years (they're apparently working on it....). One, soc.genealogy.methods, has recently been revived. eviving others will take a considerable amount of effort on somebody's part (or the new Rootsweb owners sorting things aout).. Lesley Robertson