Moderation is in my experience not required if sufficent resources are put to spam extermination when it appears. I propose the group to welcome posts on a large range of interests in the engineering field whether it be Canals, Cranes, Steam engines, Tractors, Stationary engines, Turbogenerators, Compressors, Buses, Lorries, Bridges, Light bulbs, Oil cans, Jet Engines or whatever. All of us have pictures from shows and rallies, old books, plans, instruction manuals etc which are never ending source of pictures for this kind of group, pictures which if examined to be placed on a website would be discarded as not good enough. All these pictures have a audience and with the cost of scanners in freefall it is a waste not to give others a chance to see them, and you never know what memories might come back which may be of vital importance to another viewer. No crossposting ever, reason being that if they cannot be bothered to only speak to us they are not worth listening to.
Flames are to be discouraged as is swearing and general abusive behaviour.
Is spam allowed in here. NO if you post spam or other illegal things in this group you will be stamped on. Who runs this group. If you are unable to get this group using your normal server it is probably that your ISP has not added it automatically because of the large numbers of bogus groups being created by the various groups involved in the current news wars , people like hipcrime are creating thousands of groups in an attempt to paralyse the usenet, so far they have failed but the result is that most ISP's require a request to add a specific group, and also space limitations mean that they cannot take every group . What you need to do is to first try a download of the new groups to check if it has been added recently.