Everett M. Greene wrote:
Dave J writes:

It looks like rec.aviation.ifr is downing in a sea of "MI5
Persecution". Is there nothing that can be done to stem this tide? In
the old days I would just killfile the person or a regexp against the
title, but this is actually hard. Besides, I'm using Google to access
usenet now.

I've just never seen it as bad as this, and I've been using usenet
since '93.

The MI5 nonsense is a minor nuisance compared to the flooding
of other newsgroups with totally artificially-generated
positings of gibberish. A week or more ago, one of the NGs
to which I subscribe was hit with 700+ garbage postings in
one day.


You need to use NewsProxy as a free add-on to your newsreader. It will allow
you to filter on crossposts, among other things. While I've seen numerous
complaints about MI5 this week in several newsgroups, I've yet to see any of his
postings.

Do a google search on NewsProxy, also known as nfilter. The author no longer
supports it but it still works. I'm using it with Outlook Express.


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Mortimer Schnerd, RN
mschnerdatcarolina.rr.com