>OK. Well, there may be exceptions, then. But many an unmoderated group quickly gets full of spam, personal attacks, etc.
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>>The microsoft VFP newsgroup in spanish is not offically moderated, but, its automoderate, I mean, the frecuent users have some basic rules wich all we try to follow.

Hilmar, your original post was very specific, you shouldn't apologize for it:

"It seems quite obvious to me that while freedom of expression - in general terms - is a good thing, some bounds must exist. It should be enough to take a quick look at some of the unmoderated NNTP discussion groups, which are generally of a very low quality."

Key word being "generally".