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Topic: Sociology > Depression
User: "Jane"
Date: 03 Jan 2008 07:26:43 PM
Object: The MI5 Poster
I found this in another group:
===========C&P============
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.
=======end C&P=====
.

User: "%"

Title: Re: The MI5 Poster 03 Jan 2008 07:30:04 PM
Jane wrote:

I found this in another group:

===========C&P============

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.

=======end C&P=====

you mean don't do what you just did
.
User: "Jane"

Title: Re: The MI5 Poster 03 Jan 2008 08:05:53 PM
"%" <persent@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:7-adnckY_M4dEeDanZ2dnUVZ_h-vnZ2d@giganews.com...

Jane wrote:

I found this in another group:

===========C&P============

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.

=======end C&P=====




you mean don't do what you just did

No it means don't respond to one of his posts cuz they're all cross posted
.
User: "%"

Title: Re: The MI5 Poster 03 Jan 2008 08:15:59 PM
Jane wrote:

"%" <persent@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:7-adnckY_M4dEeDanZ2dnUVZ_h-vnZ2d@giganews.com...

Jane wrote:

I found this in another group:

===========C&P============

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.

=======end C&P=====




you mean don't do what you just did


No it means don't respond to one of his posts cuz they're all cross
posted

what
.

User: "slunky"

Title: Re: The MI5 Poster 03 Jan 2008 08:09:10 PM
_/ Jane <jarsenal66nospam@hotmail.com> wrote \_

No it means don't respond to one of his posts cuz they're all cross posted

I think the only person in this group that's ever responded to one is
dawgie.
--
-slunky
.
User: "Jane"

Title: Re: The MI5 Poster 03 Jan 2008 08:14:37 PM
"slunky" <slunky@globalzero.org> wrote in message
news:slrnfnr5a4.2534.slunky@evo.zero...

_/ Jane <jarsenal66nospam@hotmail.com> wrote \_

No it means don't respond to one of his posts cuz they're all cross
posted


I think the only person in this group that's ever responded to one is
dawgie.

--
-slunky

I started kill filing them until I realized that they all have different
freaking addresses! Hey do you know of an add on for OE to block IP
addresses?
.
User: "slunky"

Title: Re: The MI5 Poster 03 Jan 2008 08:19:11 PM
_/ Jane <jarsenal66nospam@hotmail.com> wrote \_

I started kill filing them until I realized that they all have different
freaking addresses! Hey do you know of an add on for OE to block IP
addresses?

I'll look, but I don't think so. There was a really good way of blocking
them in Agent. Filter "m i 5" in Agent, and they all go away. I'm not so
familiar with OE. I don't really mind the MI5 guy. It's the guy from
alt.crypto posting nonesense all night that gets on nerves. I have to
block entire servers to cut that crap out. Luckily, I can do it as a one
time thing so they don't stay blocked.
--
-slunky
.
User: "Jane"

Title: Re: The MI5 Poster 03 Jan 2008 09:39:20 PM
"slunky" <slunky@globalzero.org> wrote in message
news:slrnfnr5st.2534.slunky@evo.zero...

_/ Jane <jarsenal66nospam@hotmail.com> wrote \_

I started kill filing them until I realized that they all have different
freaking addresses! Hey do you know of an add on for OE to block IP
addresses?


I'll look, but I don't think so. There was a really good way of blocking
them in Agent. Filter "m i 5" in Agent, and they all go away. I'm not so
familiar with OE. I don't really mind the MI5 guy. It's the guy from
alt.crypto posting nonesense all night that gets on nerves. I have to
block entire servers to cut that crap out. Luckily, I can do it as a one
time thing so they don't stay blocked.

--
-slunky

I really need to change my news reader, but I've been using OE for almost as
long as I've been on the internet.
.
User: "slunky"

Title: Re: The MI5 Poster 03 Jan 2008 09:43:30 PM
_/ Jane <jarsenal66nospam@hotmail.com> wrote \_

I really need to change my news reader, but I've been using OE for almost as
long as I've been on the internet.

I don't really like GUI readers.
--
-slunky
.
User: "Jane"

Title: Re: The MI5 Poster 03 Jan 2008 11:08:25 PM
"slunky" <slunky@globalzero.org> wrote in message
news:slrnfnraqt.14d.slunky@evo.zero...

_/ Jane <jarsenal66nospam@hotmail.com> wrote \_

I really need to change my news reader, but I've been using OE for almost
as
long as I've been on the internet.


I don't really like GUI readers.

--
-slunky

What is GUI?
.
User: "slunky"

Title: Re: The MI5 Poster 04 Jan 2008 09:38:06 AM
_/ Jane <jarsenal66nospam@hotmail.com> wrote \_

What is GUI?

Graphical User Interface. It's when all the program is run through boxes
and windows and such. I would bet every program you use has a GUI. This
is as opposed to a CLI, command line interface, where all commands are
typed out.
--
-slunky
.




User: "Miserable Man"

Title: Re: The MI5 Poster 04 Jan 2008 04:03:23 AM
On Fri, 04 Jan 2008 02:19:11 GMT, slunky <slunky@globalzero.org>
wrote:

_/ Jane <jarsenal66nospam@hotmail.com> wrote \_

I started kill filing them until I realized that they all have different
freaking addresses! Hey do you know of an add on for OE to block IP
addresses?


I'll look, but I don't think so. There was a really good way of blocking
them in Agent. Filter "m i 5" in Agent, and they all go away. I'm not so
familiar with OE. I don't really mind the MI5 guy. It's the guy from
alt.crypto posting nonesense all night that gets on nerves. I have to
block entire servers to cut that crap out. Luckily, I can do it as a one
time thing so they don't stay blocked.

Thanks for the Agent tip. I think I'll pay to keep using Agent. The
powerful filtering makes it worth the money.
---
Miserable Man
.
User: "slunky"

Title: Re: The MI5 Poster 04 Jan 2008 09:40:57 AM
_/ Miserable Man <misemann@misery.net> wrote \_

Thanks for the Agent tip. I think I'll pay to keep using Agent. The
powerful filtering makes it worth the money.

I would think so. I don't know how much Agent costs, but it seems from
all I hear, it's worth it's price if you really enjoy Usenet.
--
-slunky
.
User: "Miserable Man"

Title: Re: The MI5 Poster 04 Jan 2008 01:44:29 PM
On Fri, 04 Jan 2008 15:40:57 GMT, slunky <slunky@globalzero.org>
wrote:

_/ Miserable Man <misemann@misery.net> wrote \_

Thanks for the Agent tip. I think I'll pay to keep using Agent. The
powerful filtering makes it worth the money.


I would think so. I don't know how much Agent costs, but it seems from
all I hear, it's worth it's price if you really enjoy Usenet.

It's $29.
---
Miserable Man
.
User: "slunky"

Title: Re: The MI5 Poster 04 Jan 2008 01:50:16 PM
_/ Miserable Man <misemann@misery.net> wrote \_

It's $29.

That's not bad.
--
-slunky
.









User: "Doug Laidlaw"

Title: Re: The MI5 Poster 04 Jan 2008 02:00:42 AM
Jane wrote:

I found this in another group:

===========C&P============

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.

=======end C&P=====

I am very sorry for him as a person, but he is an infernal nuisance all the
same. I am glad that he does have periods when he isn't as ill. The idea
of making an opera based on a person's illness seems wrong to me,
particularly when it is commissioned by the London Festival.
I mentioned him to my son-in-law, who says that MI5 no longer exists: it is
now MI6.
I can filter him out, EXCEPT in soc.genealogy.australia+nz. That is a
mailing list as well, available as either, and looking at the config
settings, they differ. My current filter is set to MI5-Victim-at-mi5 dot
gov dot uk (don't want the email harvesters compounding the problem) which
is the only From: address I have seen so far.
Doug.
Registered Linux User, slunky, and using Knode.
.
User: "BoredToTears"

Title: Re: The MI5 Poster 04 Jan 2008 09:05:02 AM
On Jan 4, 8:00=A0am, Doug Laidlaw

I am very sorry for him as a person, but he is an infernal nuisance all th=

e

same. =A0I am glad that he does have periods when he isn't as ill. =A0The =

idea

of making an opera based on a person's illness seems wrong to me,
particularly when it is commissioned by the London Festival.

I mentioned him to my son-in-law, who says that MI5 no longer exists: it i=

s

now MI6.

http://www.mi5.gov.uk/

I can filter him out, EXCEPT in soc.genealogy.australia+nz. =A0That is a
mailing list as well, available as either, and looking at the config
settings, they differ. My current filter is set to MI5-Victim-at-mi5 dot
gov dot uk (don't want the email harvesters compounding the problem) which=
is the only From: address I have seen so far.

Doug.
Registered Linux User, slunky, and using Knode.

.

User: "slunky"

Title: Re: The MI5 Poster 04 Jan 2008 09:39:49 AM
_/ Doug Laidlaw <doug@dougshost.invalid> wrote \_

Doug.
Registered Linux User, slunky, and using Knode.

:) I've never used Knode, but it's on my computer because I use k3b, and
that's dependant on KDE which includes Knode.
--
-slunky
.



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