Dave Kearton
January 2nd 08, 10:49 PM
Forwarded with thanks from aus.aviation
Big Hooters wrote:
>
> The MI5 poster:
> His name is Mike Corley, he is an IT professional but alas he has
> mental health issues. Here are some details about Mike Corley.
> He lives in London, UK. He first began his postings to usenet, BBS,
> and forums in 1995, unsurprisingly first to alt.conspiracy.
>
> He has his own website:
> http://www.five.org.uk/
>
> "There have been numerous newspaper articles and online thesis
> about Mike's postings, this is a BBC article on the subject:"
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/alabaster/A164404
>
> "And amongst many other covers of the Mike Corley phenomenon
> there has been a modern opera about this usenet legend:"
> http://www.thecorleyconspiracy.com/
>
> The problem is amplified by posters who reply to Mikes X-post floods
> without snipping, and without removing the crossposts.
> But also Mike Corley sets "follow-up" groups to his MI5 posts, this is
> where he hasn't actually posted to a specific group but it's listed as
> "follow-up" in the crossposts, the lusers who reply, their posts show
> up in groups that Mike wants flooded.
> Mike Corley has set uk.misc as follow-up to all his posts, (which I've
> removed) it gets flooded with the replies, and of course the
> X-posting. Mike Corley has been doing this since 1995, and he knows
> what he is doing, he avoids killfiles/plonk/block by morphing and
> using pay-as-you-go dial-up. Filters rarely have an effect as in this
> example, if you set the criteria as "MI_5", then the flood morph to
> "MIfive" or whatever. He dosen't post
> via google dispite the headers, nor are the email addies valid, he
> dances between proxy servers such as altopia etc, filtering has no
> effect.
> The simple rule with Mike Corley floods is to ignore and not to reply.
> Mike will take his medication and eventually stop.....until the next
> time. But if lusers do the foolish and reply/x-post/fail-to-snip,
> then Mike Corley sticks around. So don't spam your pointless replies
> across dozens of groups.
Big Hooters wrote:
>
> The MI5 poster:
> His name is Mike Corley, he is an IT professional but alas he has
> mental health issues. Here are some details about Mike Corley.
> He lives in London, UK. He first began his postings to usenet, BBS,
> and forums in 1995, unsurprisingly first to alt.conspiracy.
>
> He has his own website:
> http://www.five.org.uk/
>
> "There have been numerous newspaper articles and online thesis
> about Mike's postings, this is a BBC article on the subject:"
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/alabaster/A164404
>
> "And amongst many other covers of the Mike Corley phenomenon
> there has been a modern opera about this usenet legend:"
> http://www.thecorleyconspiracy.com/
>
> The problem is amplified by posters who reply to Mikes X-post floods
> without snipping, and without removing the crossposts.
> But also Mike Corley sets "follow-up" groups to his MI5 posts, this is
> where he hasn't actually posted to a specific group but it's listed as
> "follow-up" in the crossposts, the lusers who reply, their posts show
> up in groups that Mike wants flooded.
> Mike Corley has set uk.misc as follow-up to all his posts, (which I've
> removed) it gets flooded with the replies, and of course the
> X-posting. Mike Corley has been doing this since 1995, and he knows
> what he is doing, he avoids killfiles/plonk/block by morphing and
> using pay-as-you-go dial-up. Filters rarely have an effect as in this
> example, if you set the criteria as "MI_5", then the flood morph to
> "MIfive" or whatever. He dosen't post
> via google dispite the headers, nor are the email addies valid, he
> dances between proxy servers such as altopia etc, filtering has no
> effect.
> The simple rule with Mike Corley floods is to ignore and not to reply.
> Mike will take his medication and eventually stop.....until the next
> time. But if lusers do the foolish and reply/x-post/fail-to-snip,
> then Mike Corley sticks around. So don't spam your pointless replies
> across dozens of groups.