Any way to filter out MI5 posts

A newsreader with filters that use regular expressions (40tude dialog) makes it easy.

My ISP has put a filter on their news server.

• Source must be Altopia.

• Crossposted to 4 or more newsgroups

• Subject to contain M.I.5 (where the dots are any character other than A-Z, or nothing at all)

Seems to be working OK.

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John B

Thank you. created a kill filter with M.I.5. in the agent newsreader and like magic he's history

Yeah, I can't see a human dithering the posts to make them difficult to filter too many posts and too fast . Doubtless a human is behind it.

I read a few several months ago.

Your post about him is interesting.

John B's filter technique is working though.

The author is extremely active during holidays. I guess he must be a lonely person, victim of alcoholism, and that's the least of his problems.

It infuriates me that if Usenet can be victimized by an individual, just imagine what Al-Qaeda (or the terrorist organization du-jour) could do.

-Ramon

Regular expressions are your friend.

Use a newsreader that lets you filter using regular expressions. I haven't seen any of his crap in a long time.

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Namaste--

I've noticed they always come in blocks - I just shift-click to mark the whole block, and mark them read. Then I don't have to deal with them until the next flood.

Good Luck! RIch

On Tue, 01 Jan 2008 16:17:37 -0800, Ramon F Herrera wrote: ...

The terrorists have already won: It happened on the day "Homeland Security" started strip-searching US citizens at the airports. That causes a hell of a lot more widespread disruption and waste than a single suicide bomber could ever hope to cause.

Thanks, Rich

"Security theatre".

Win's thread on "Leading surveillance societies in the EU and the World, 2007" news: snipped-for-privacy@75g2000hsv.googlegroups.com has other elements of *The terrorists have already won*.

?cmd%255B347%255D=x-347-559597+*-*-worsening+Electronic.Privacy.Information.Center+Greece-Romania-*-Canada+*-US-*-*-worst-*-*-*-*-*-*+lowest.ranking+*-increasing-trend+Argentina+surveillance.industry+newer.democracies+*-*-*-*-older-democracies-*-*-*-*-failing+slipped.significantly+Privacy.International+highest.ranking+black+Malaysia-Russia-*-China (The PDF version linked on that page is easier to read than the Web page.)

For any news reader using regular expressions to score articles on:

[*] Score:: =-9999 Subject: MI5 Subject: M.I.5

Add this to your scorefile and say goodbye to MI5.

Just find a GOOD news provider, and they will maintain the filters. The only way I see his crap is when someone quotes it, and they delete ALL of his blathering.

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