On Aug 20, 3:35 pm, Jack wrote:
I did my part... I went to each one and reported it as spam... It
really didn't take too long, but I'll never get those minutes back.

Jack Womack

Thanks! But with them cross posting to so many groups I'm sure they
get noticed and reported a lot. With the distributed nature of Usenet
things also often take a while for new messages, kill messages if any,
etc. to propogate around.

And yes if you really want to be most effective report it to the
originating ISP/news provider not your current news host..

The barrier to bozos posting this junk is so low that going after the
origination point or news feeds while a good thing to do is just
unlikely to really impact a persistent poster like our MI5 conspiracy
friend. That's one reason why kill files have been around for decades
- and they are the easiest way not to have to even see most of this
junk. And it is *so* satisfying to hit a button or click on something
and never have to see that junk again. And power users with news
readers with kill files that handle pattern matching (regex)
expressions can do even better with a little bit of typing.


Darryl