"Tri-Pacer" wrote in message
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What is happening to this group?

Suddenly there is more garbage than aviation stuff posted.

Is there a deliberate attempt to ruin it?

Killfiles work rather well at increasing the content to noise ratio... I've
found that by killfiling the anonymous remailers, you cut down quite a bit
of clutter... Unfortunately, some of the trolls crosspost over many
newsgroups, so we get noise from the other newsgroups from individuals who
reply to the trolls... To get rid of this, I create message rules in OE that
look for certain strings in the message header... The two major rules that I
have are called:

Belfort Stalking Nutcases
9/11 Conspiracy Nuts

Since the rules are just searching for certain strings in the message
subject field, even those individuals who mistakenly respond to a troll get
their message filtered, but their responses to other messages are not
necessarily filtered...