Is this NG history?

It appears that once again, this entire NG has been usurped. I hate to
see this happen. I'm not a regular contributor, not even much of a
lurker. But I check it out occasionally to see what's going on in the
field and if there's anything I can use. Unfortunately, it's been taken
over by a lower life form, sub-amoebic, and appears to be wiped out.
Sad. And this certanly isn't the first time I've found it this way.
Isn't there some way this NG can be moderated so this kind of mindless
drivel can be immediately removed? There must be a way to prevent this.
To continue to allow it is to turn the NG over to the lowest elements
of our society, and they are pretty low! Anyone have any ideas on how
to retake the NG from this, and other, bozos? (Not intending to insult
clowns, BTW!)

In article <1167161987.127261.104680.DeleteThis@h40g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>,
salgud <davegb.DeleteThis@safebrowse.com> wrote:

> It appears that once again, this entire NG has been usurped. I hate to
> see this happen. I'm not a regular contributor, not even much of a
> lurker. But I check it out occasionally to see what's going on in the
> field and if there's anything I can use. Unfortunately, it's been taken
> over by a lower life form, sub-amoebic, and appears to be wiped out.
> Sad. And this certanly isn't the first time I've found it this way.
> Isn't there some way this NG can be moderated so this kind of mindless
> drivel can be immediately removed? There must be a way to prevent this.
> To continue to allow it is to turn the NG over to the lowest elements
> of our society, and they are pretty low! Anyone have any ideas on how
> to retake the NG from this, and other, bozos? (Not intending to insult
> clowns, BTW!)
>

This is usenet. It's always been that way, and probably always will,
and the flow changes constantly from one end to the other - you
probably have just managed to always hit tide at low ebb :^)

There is a moderated newsgroup (rec.photo.moderated), but you probably
are not going to be able to change the charter (to unmoderated) on an
established big-8 group like this. It (r.p/m) is also far less active
- my news server has 751 articles on r.p.m going back to January of
2004, while this group has over 54K articles. Many are worthless, but
if you set up your killfiles and [priority filters] properly, it
doesn't take much time to weed things out.

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the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for
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