Marty

Can't believe he has been spamming for 12 years.

There are large groups both commercial and private that chase these
guys down and love to do it for commercial and ego reasons.

Big John
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On Sat, 25 Aug 2007 10:12:13 -0400, "Martin X. Moleski, SJ"
wrote:

On Sat, 25 Aug 2007 05:45:14 -0700, Jay Honeck wrote in
. com:

Okay, so this MI5 character has spammed almost every newsgroup in
existence. It appears to be computer-generated gibberish, broadcast
across a wide spectrum of 'groups.

Does anyone know what compells someone to do that? Is there a point?

He may be a paranoid schizophrenic. They say he's been spamming
Usenet for 12 years:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A694523

http://www.five.org.uk/root/#hotchfaq

His web site:

http://www.five.org.uk/

Then again, he may not exist.

Or he may be a performance artist.

As with other noise in the Usenet environment,
the best remedy is to ignore it.

I think you can write a pretty good filter
using "MI5" as the key term and get rid of
most of it--including replies like this, for
those who don't like to see OT material in the
group. ;o)

Marty