| \(not quite so\) Fat Sam 2008-01-04, 7:17 pm |
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Big Hooters wrote:
> "George Leithead" <george.leithead@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:bf1306f8-2d7f-42cb-bf3e-d44146abbf2a@t1g2000pra.googlegroups.com...
> snip>
>
> You use google, MI5 victim dosen't, google is only a web based access
> to usenet. Google cannot do anything.
> 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.
>
> He has his own website:
> http://www.five.org.uk/
>
> "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
>
> "And amongst many other covers of the Mike Corley phenomenon
> there has been a modern opera about this usenet legend:"
> http://www.thecorleyconspiracy.com/
>
> 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 the posts, (which I've
> removed) it gets flooded with the replies, and of course your X-post.
> 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 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.
Yes, his messages are a pain in the XXX, but I find
myself somewhat tolerant of him.
I've seen him interviweed on TV, read his web presence, and read his usenet
posts.
The guy is suffering from a serious and uncontrolled mental illness.
He has serious paranoia issues, and it's clear from his interviews that he
isn't getting the help or mdication he so desperately needs...(perhaps MI5
are blocking it, lol).
In a strange sense, I feel quite sorry for this guy, because he's obviously
going through some serious mental turmoil, and I wonder if I would be able
to handle it, or if I would just crumble under the weight of my own
out-of-control insanity.
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