Crazy loons

Sorry to shout, but BY DESIGN google CANNOT DO ANYTHING and SHOULD NOT
BE ABLE to do anything. He has NO relationship with google. The only
relationship here is that YOU CHOOSE to use a web browser to read his
posts indirectly via the google website!


Tom is right, there is nothing that Google (or anyone basically) can
do. The analogy that I give is like trying to blame your car radio
for receiving an offending "shock jock". You can't call up Ford and
tell them to block it as they have no control. Unfortunately you
can't even picket the radio station because Usenet news (which is what
you are reading) is broadcast from 1000's upong 1000's of "stations"
and the MI5 guy could be sending his message from any of them.

This basically is a never ending battle within all Usenet news
groups. There are two general solutions;

Simplest: Switch to a standalone Usenet news reader that can block
(filter, killfile) individual types of posts (by author, content,
subject, etc). Using a web based tool such as Google is great, but it
has its limitations.

Hardest: Make rec.aviation.soaring a moderated news group. This means
that one or more moderators decide what is posted and who can post.
While this cleans up the news group and keeps out the un-medicated, it
limits the content (both width, breath and speed). Bascially, we
don't want to go there.