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Landfield.com: NetNews Moderators Handbook Manual on how to moderate newsgroups. Explains technical requirements, how moderated groups work, and offers advice on how to handle various aspects of moderating. http://www.landfield.com/usenet/moderators/handbook/

Landfield.com: USENET Moderators Archive A collection of software and scripts for handling moderating duties. Most of these software are unmaintained but still of interest. http://www.landfield.com/moderators/

Moderated Newsgroups FAQ Text format. Explains what moderation is, how it works, issues regarding moderation, and requirements for becoming a moderator. http://www.faqs.org/faqs/usenet/moderated-ng-faq/

Pitfalls of Newsgroup Moderation Describes some of the difficulties one can run into in maintaining a moderated newsgroup. Recommended reading before creating a moderated newsgroup, or converting the status of an existing newsgroup to moderated. Maintained by Russ Albery. http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/faqs/mod-pitfalls.html

S.T.U.M.P. Robomoderator Program A flexible, open source auto-moderation tool which allows Usenet news group moderators to partly or completely automate their tasks. http://www.algebra.com/~ichudov/stump/

Usenet Volunteer Moderators A group dedicated to helping moderate Usenet newsgroups and help others that wish to moderate a newsgroup themselves. http://killfile.org/~tskirvin/uvm/