spam / newgroup question

steve <stevesemple@lycos.com> wrote in

news:17079ef4-425d-4e9b-9539-3a6bea99b186@u34g2000yqu.googlegr

oups.com:

> Im going to sound like a Neophyte question. Why is it that

> this newsgroup is hijacked by this guy Keven and what ever

> the heck he is doing.

Hijacked ?

> I dont get it. Cant this news group

> be set up to refuse mail from this name. Im not critical

> really I just dont understand, with all the technology

> today, surely the moderator has the power to stop his eamil

> address.

Moderator ?

> And if he creates a new one put it in. Ive never

> run a news group so I may be in the dark.

>

> My second question is perhaps more phylisophical. I dont

> get what he is doing, I mean the messages are stupid. At

> least if they are ads for drugs I get it he is selling

> something but, these messages I just dont get ?? What is

> the point of it all.

> I hope Im not focusing too much attention on this I just

> dont get these two questions. Its amazing how one guy can

> be such a fool?? I flag it as spam but no one seems to do

> anything about it??

There's nothing that can be done about it other than possibly

pointing your newsreader to........

Wait. Nevermind. You are a GG poster.

If you were using a real newsreader instead of a lame News-to-

Web interface then you could filter whomever you wanted to.