Forwarded with thanks from aus.aviation
Big Hooters wrote:
> >
> > The MI5 poster:
> > His name is Mike Corley, he is an IT professional but alas he has
> > mental health issues. Here are some details about Mike Corley.
> > He lives in London, UK. He first began his postings to usenet, BBS,
> > and forums in 1995, unsurprisingly first to alt.conspiracy.
> >
> > He has his own website:
> > http://www.five.org.uk/
> >
> > "There have been numerous newspaper articles and online thesis
> > about Mike's postings, this is a BBC article on the subject:"
> > http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/alabaster/A164404
> >
> > "And amongst many other covers of the Mike Corley phenomenon
> > there has been a modern opera about this usenet legend:"
> > http://www.thecorleyconspiracy.com/
> >
> > The problem is amplified by posters who reply to Mikes X-post floods
> > without snipping, and without removing the crossposts.
> > But also Mike Corley sets "follow-up" groups to his MI5 posts, this is
> > where he hasn't actually posted to a specific group but it's listed as
> > "follow-up" in the crossposts, the lusers who reply, their posts show
> > up in groups that Mike wants flooded.
> > Mike Corley has set uk.misc as follow-up to all his posts, (which I've
> > removed) it gets flooded with the replies, and of course the
> > X-posting. Mike Corley has been doing this since 1995, and he knows
> > what he is doing, he avoids killfiles/plonk/block by morphing and
> > using pay-as-you-go dial-up. Filters rarely have an effect as in this
> > example, if you set the criteria as "MI_5", then the flood morph to
> > "MIfive" or whatever. He dosen't post
> > via google dispite the headers, nor are the email addies valid, he
> > dances between proxy servers such as altopia etc, filtering has no
> > effect.
> > The simple rule with Mike Corley floods is to ignore and not to reply.
> > Mike will take his medication and eventually stop.....until the next
> > time. But if lusers do the foolish and reply/x-post/fail-to-snip,
> > then Mike Corley sticks around. So don't spam your pointless replies
> > across dozens of groups.
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