Victor Sack > wrote:
>Peter Aitken > wrote:
>> This group has no moderator. When a newsgroup is first formed it has a
>> charter that specifies, among other things, whether it is moderated or not.
>
>This is only true for new newsgroups. Most newsgroups formed before
>1989, rfc being one of them, have no charters. In those balmy days
>people still knew what, where and how to post, and charters were deemed
>unnecessary.

Actually, charters were the result of overweaning give-some-people-
a-badge-ism in the news.groups discussions. They're as useless as
tits on a Republican Presidential Candidate.

--Blair
"Give some people a profit motive."