Time has come when I've got to do something about this as the s/n ratio has become so huge that it's getting unworkable to participate in this group.
I'm using Thunderbird coupled with VirginMedia's news server, which seems to be a bad combination as (a) Tbird's filtering capabality is crap (all you can do is filter by subject line or sender - you can't kill googlegroup posts) and VM seem to be particularly rubbish at filtering at source.
So it seems I need to either to change my newsreader to something with better filtering capability, or my news server to one which does better source filtering. Which? Suggestions for either please?!
Thanks David