MI.5 poster: And his name is .....

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"Dave Kearton" <dkearton///////@ozemail.com.au> schreef in bericht
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> Forwarded with thanks from aus.aviation
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> Big Hooters wrote:
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>> 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.
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>> He has his own website:
>> http://www.five.org.uk/
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>> "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
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>> "And amongst many other covers of the Mike Corley phenomenon
>> there has been a modern opera about this usenet legend:"
>> http://www.thecorleyconspiracy.com/
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>> 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
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>> 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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