> > > >As in, preventing these postings?
> >
> > The passive approaches have been mentioned.
> >
> > Better provider:
> > Supernews is in the top eschelon,
> > so there's not a lot more you can do there.
> > Larkin mentioned the other day that they weren't catching all of it.
> >
> > Local filtering:
> > Use a newsreader with better filtering than Thunderbird/SeaMonkey.
> > .
> > .
> > The **active** approach is to
> > look in the headers for *NNTP-Posting-Host:*
> > Mark and copy the IP Address beside it.
> >
> > Go toformatting link
> > Paste the number in the *IPWHOIS Lookup* box.
> > On the obfuscated page that comes up
> > **click here to get the results with the E-mail address**.
> >
> > Email a complaint to the abuse address listed.
> > (Paste in complete headers.)
> > If there is no obvious abuse mailbox listed,
> > send mail to every address on the page.
> > You may as well CC snipped-for-privacy@google.com.
> >
> > This particular dirtbag's provider takes complaints at
> > mailto: snipped-for-privacy@fjdcb.fz.fj.cn abuse@ fjdcb.fz.fj.cn
> > That mailbox is currently completely full of unread reports
> > and new reports are bouncing.
> >
> > If the provider is lazy, overtaxed/incompetent, and/or a dirtbag as
> > well,
> > I have found that there is nothing punitive that you can do.[1][2]
> > All that is left is defensive measures.
> > .
> > .
> > [1] ...unless you know how to set up
a
formatting link
> and how to get it to perform aformatting link
> >
> > [2] You can also report him to the abuse.sightings group
> > (but that happened long ago with this jerk).
> > That will get him blocked from mail servers who use blacklisting
> > and Usenet servers who use those pages to create blacklists.
>
> Eh, he's in China. Maybe send a note to the head of China's Ministry
> of Trade? THAT will get the business owner's attention.
Tell them that he's using lead paint, and they may shoot him.