On Aug 20, 12:58 pm, Dan G wrote:
On Aug 20, 8:38 pm, wrote:

It's great that we have this forum for discussing Glider related
topics, but isn't there a way to filter out the carp (intended
misspelling) that's obviously originating from non-pilots about non-
flying-related topics?

It's possible to report them to google: open the offending message
(and there's a lot of them today!), click "more options" on the top
right of the message, and report it. Please, everyone on the group do
this for every one of the "MI5" messages - if enough people do it
Google will cull them and hopefully block the spammer.

Dan

Actually everybody can save their time. It looks like Google has
already flagged the account this crap is coming from so, I don't kno
how Google blocks things but hopefully we won't see more posts form
the same email address. They probably won't delete the individual
messages.

Handling spam all depends on you are reading the news feed. Usenet
news is just the carrier, within Usenet Google groups is just one of
many cooperating carriers and (through their web interface) client
side viewers onto the Usenet group. Google does not have absolute
control over anything happening on the newsgroup, and BTW the MI5
spammer and many others did not originate from within the Google news
system.

Any decent news reader will provide kill files to help block spammers,
look up the documentation for that. Since the original question was
posted from a Google news session then the options are limited. If you
are using Mozilla Firefox then you can use the greasemonkey plug in
and an available grease monkey script to add kill file type behavior
to the Google web based news reader. It is a kludge but it works. If
you are using Microsoft Internet Explorer, time to upgrade to Mozilla
Firefox.

Google for greasemonkey and install that extension to Mozilla. Then go
to http://www.penney.org/google-groups-...updated-2.html and
download the script, use Mozilla to browse to the script on your
filesystem and click on it, you should see greaemonkey then offer to
install it.

Darryl