Re: the MI 5 spammer

Roedy Green wrote:
This guy went out of his way to make it difficult to filter out his
spam. He realises you don't want to read it. Yet he persists anyway.

Why? All I can see is a vandalism motive, a desire to piss people
off.

I believe the conventional term of usage is "MI5 nutter". He's probably
paranoid delusional and beyond the reach of rational argument. Ironically,
MI5 probably doesn't care about the MI5 nutter (his worst fear) since he's
doing a great job of convincing everyone that anyone claiming persecution
from the intelligence services is a nutcase.

It doesn't help that common email clients like Thunderbird are pathetically
useless in their spam filtering capabilities which is strange considering what
a problem it is. I don't know what their priorities are.

Just be glad that what happened to comp.arch hasn't happened to more newsgroups.
Usenet might have to switch over to a lot more moderated newsgroups. Google doesn't
even bother to filter it out which says not so much that Google has infinite disk
space so much as they're writing off usenet completely since all that noise makes
group searching useless.


--
Joe Seigh

When you get lemons, you make lemonade.
When you get hardware, you make software. .

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