The xnews score file which was posted previously has been updated to
block some additional IP addresses belonging to known garbage posters.
Google has now been blocked entirely, because it is now recognized as
a major Usenet abuser which is responsible for allowing far too many
people like Wiseman and Morgan to disrupt Usenet. All followups to
Google posts have also been blocked.

Xnews is a free news reader which does not have to be installed.
Simply extract it from the zip file and start running xnews.exe.
You can obtain xnews from

http://www.download.com/3000-2164-10144167.html

and you can copy the score file below into score.ini to have an
immediately effective filtering system.

An xnews / slrn score file allows you to specify filtering rules for
each news group or for a collection of groups. You do that by
enclosing the name of the group(s) in square brackets.

After the bracketed name of the groups, you specify a score. I don't
bother with elaborate scoring, and instead give all matches a score of
-9999. That causes the matching posts to be killed.

So, for all of the rec.radio.amateur hierarchy, plus the flame_fest
news group, you can use the following score file (lines starting with
"%" are comments). Text case is ignored by default, so "get help"
matches "GeT HElp" when specified below. If you don't want to use a
rule, simply insert a "%" character as the first character of a rule,
or else delete the rule completely.

======(cut here)======
[alt.radio.scanner.flame_fest,rec.radio.amateur.*]
sco: -9999
% The next two lines to kill all Google posts, plus followups to those
% posts.
Message-ID: googlegroups\.com
References: googlegroups\.com
% Mark Morgan's IPs
NNTP-Posting-Host: ^66\.82\.
NNTP-Posting-Host: ^69\.19\.
% Wiseman's Google posts
NNTP-Posting-Host: ^65\.5[2-5]\.
NNTP-Posting-Host: ^63\.23\.
% Wiseman's other posts
NNTP-Posting-Host: x-privat\.org$
% Mark Morgan's favorite topics
Subject: get help
Subject: \bs\
% hot-ham-and-eggs, Slow Code, etc.
NNTP-Posting-Host: ^4\.2[23][0-8]\.
NNTP-Posting-Host: ^4\.254\.
NNTP-Posting-Host: ^4\.15[3-5]\.
Path: superfeed\.net![^!]+$
% Billy Smith (Earthlink)
NNTP-Posting-Host: ^4\.25[26]\.
% Some backup rules
From: kb9rqz
From: k4yz
% Kill certain crossposted articles
% - posts including rec.radio.cb
Newsgroups: rec\.radio\.cb
% - posts including uk.radio.amateur
Newsgroups: uk\.radio\.amateur
% Kill crossposts to five or more newsgroups
Xref: :.*:.*:.*:.*:
% Kill posts with 500 or more lines (probably binaries)
Lines: 500
% Kill all posts from several free news servers
Path: usenetzone\.com![^!]+$
Path: datemas\.de![^!]+$
Path: aioe\.org![^!]+$
Path: nntpserver\.com![^!]+$
% Kill posts from anonymous remailers
Path: sewer-output
Path: mail2news
Message-ID: mixmin\.net
% Boog-boog filth poster
NNTP-Posting-Host: \.sniparpa\.net$
% U-Know-Who (roadrunner)
NNTP-Posting-Host: ^24\.17[45]\.
NNTP-Posting-Host: ^67\.[8-9]\.
NNTP-Posting-Host: ^67\.1[01]\.
% Iceland "proxy" through Google
NNTP-Posting-Host: ^194\.144\.
% Sniparpa poster through Google
NNTP-Posting-Host: ^209\.204\.
% Moparholic, etc. uses bogus X-Face header, so kill with it.
X-Face: .
% Who's your daddy + SC
NNTP-Posting-Host: ^63\.15[2-9]\.
NNTP-Posting-Host: ^4\.24[34]\.
% safepages.com via Google
NNTP-Posting-Host: ^67\.13[6-9]\.

% Uncomment the next four lines to kill Google posts in all news groups.
%[*]
% sco: -9999
% Message-ID: googlegroups\.com
% References: googlegroups\.com