Several programs are available to do it: https://www.big-8.org/wiki/Moderated_Newsgroups#Moderation_Software https://www.big-8.org/wiki/Moderated_Newsgroups#Mod

Several programs are available to do it: https://www.big-8.org/wiki/Moderated_Newsgroups#Moderation_Software https://www.big-8.org/wiki/Moderated_Newsgroups#Moderation_S... The type and quality of moderation is up to the moderation team. Might be automatic, might involve a review by a human for each post. As someone else already mentioned, there are groups which were configured to be moderated but have no moderators at all to approve posts. Either they disappeared or there never were any. To participate in these groups you have to set the "Approved:" header in your post yourself. Obviously that would also be the way to circumvent the moderation process for any other moderated group. The countermeasure is that the moderators send out a cancel control message which instructs all the newsservers receiving it or at least those who honor cancel messages, to delete this specific message.