MI5 -- WTF?

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

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
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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

On Sat, 25 Aug 2007 12:02:59 -0500, Big John wrote in :

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.

True.

Any account he uses to generate the Usenet floods
probably gets deactivated very shortly--once folks
track it down.

I'm very grateful for the good guys who do what they
can to limit the noise from the con artists and vandals.

Marty
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