This review is part of the news.groups.reviews archives . The robot moderator has reduced the spam, MMF, MLM, hello-world, and other pointless cascades to the point that the group now carries about one third the traffic it previously did. While there is still some off-topic material, and hand mod is being discussed as well as further tuning of the bot, the signal to noise ratio is outstanding. Posted questions are much easier to find.
Helpers can find questions instead of junk.
If you're a newbie looking for help, or an experienced hand looking to help out, this is the premiere help newsgroup.