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Also, I'm somewhat new to the group, so I don't know if any members or
the moderator has tried to deal with the MI5 spams, but I would
encourage everyone to report each message (click the "more options"
link at the top of the message after you click on it). I just reported
a bunch of them. I imagine that if many people in the group reported
them, usenet or google might take quicker action.

Good luck on getting google to do anything - and I'm not being
sarcastic; I wish you good luck. I've been hearing about this MI5 attack
on most of the newsgroups I read but I haven't actually seen any of the
spam. Apparently, individual.net news has figured out how to filter it
out. If googla can't filter it, I recommend using a real news client on
a real news feed. Oh, and there is no moderator on most of USENET,
including r.s.n

All the best,
Bob