On Wed, 14 Jul 2010 08:27:28 -0700, mike wrote:

I would be happy to see a move to a Google/Yahoo group and forget about
this newsgroups format which is being ruined with spam and the insane.

Get a proper newsreader and use a kill-file. There are, relatively, very
few spam posts to this newsgroup. My kill-file has just one entry.

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Alex