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On 18/09/2020 12:49, Roger Mc wrote:
> On Monday, September 14, 2020 at 2:18:39 PM UTC+10, Paul Rubin wrote:
>> Roger Mc <roge...@gmail.com> writes:
>>> Unfortunately, I feel compelled to leave this previously excellent
>>> group because of its invasion by sex industry terroisim.
>> I am able to automatically ignore that stuff, by lowering score (in
>> gnus) on all gmail posting addresses, then re-increasing score manually
>> for legitimate posters here who are unfortunate enough to use those
>> addresses.
> Thanks Paul for your advice,
> 	Unfortunately, I do not seem to have the facilities that you mention.
> I also realise that these offensive threads would normally be blocked by a moderator.
> So it seems that this group does not have a moderator?

It's usenet, it's distributed as in there is no one site that owns it, 
there is no moderator.

But there is or should be an abuse contact in the offending post 
headers. Have you reported the spam, off-topic posts?