Amusingly bad, but annoying. And to think if he had not changed the
message titles I might have wanted to help him out with his problem.

The messages originated from a USENET news service individual.net in
Germany. They have already tracked this @$$hole down to one of their
subscribers operating a web2news gateway that was attacked. They have
sent out kill messages. Impressive service from individual.net.

Yes, apologies people. The messages came via the gliderpilot.net
r.a.s feed/service which has had to be temporarily suspended whilst I
sort out the account problems with individual.net. Sadly,
gliderpilot.net seems to be another one of those sites now targetted
by 419-esque scammers through the discussion groups and the adverts

If only Nigerian penal code 419 was effective!

Andy