Hope J. Clarke sees this- I think he was the one who left me a helpful message (in the Across the Usenet thread) about where to find Moderated Forums. Unfortunately I hit a wrong button and erased it. So if you see this, amigo, could you repost?
has binaries and a variety of programs depending on how much you intend to download every month--it's 40 bucks a year for 10 gig a month. There's a list of free-access news servers at
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are two kinds of "moderated forums".
There are moderated newsgroups, accessible via any NNTP server that carries them--newsguy would have most of them as would news.individual.net--there are not many of those and they tend not to be very active though.
There are also moderated Web based forums-- is one example (they claim to be the largest and are likely the most active) specific to gardening, but if you google "gardening forum" (without the quotation marks) you'll find a very large number of others.
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