On Fri, 8 Feb 2008 12:12:31 GMT, Janet Baraclough
> wrote:

>The message >
>from Dan Abel > contains these words:
>
>
>> Many of us will remember Mr. Chung, who called himself Dr. Chung, the
>> famous cardiologist with the two pound diet (just eat two pounds of food
>> a day, doesn't matter what it is). He changed his name/address every
>> week. The only way I could block him was by KFing every post that was
>> cross-posted to sci.med.cardiology, which he *always* included.
>
>On this newsreader I would have got rid of him by adjusting my
>newsreader to delete any message with more than (x) crossposted groups
>in the header.
>
> Janet

that's the main reason i use newsproxy, which pre-filters things
before they get to agent's filters (which as far as i can tell, can't
do the 'more than x crossposted' filter). it's a very handy filter.

your pal,
blake