At one time I operated a large public News server.  If you have 
visited a News newsgroup on the Internet recently, you will notice 
that it has changed from being an online discussion forum to being a 
file-sharing network under the alt.binaries.* hierarchy. A lot of great 
newsgroups are in their death stages; traffic on such newsgroups is 
either all-spam, or is non-existent.  

A few newsgroups have attempted to slow the spam by switching to being 
a "moderated" newsgroup.  As a news server administrator, I was 
mystified why most of these newsgroups didn't make their Charters or 
FAQs more readily available (users cannot effectively participate in 
group discussions unless they are familiar with the rules of conduct 
for the discussion group).  To make it easier on my patrons, I 
collected together in one place all of the Charters or Faqs that I 
could find for all of the moderated newsgroups I was carrying (a 
surprisingly difficult task I was to discover).  

Although I no longer run a News server, I feel that the collection 
of Moderated Newsgrops Charters or Faqs I made is still helpful, and 
so I offer this (2005 frozen-in-time) collection for your edification. 
Charters or Faqs are in archives labled with the name of the newsgroup
hierarchy in which they reside, and each Charter or Faq is labled using 
the full name of the newsgroup they represent. Each text document was 
written by the authorized spokespersons for their discussion group.