Is there a way I can automate downloading TV shows off of usenet? [more inside]
posted by cosmic osmo on Oct 13, 2008 - 9 answers

I'm having trouble getting on the Usenet server for Time Warner Cable in NYC... [more inside]
posted by skwm on Dec 2, 2004 - 3 answers

TrollFilter: I recently revisited an alt. newsgroup that I hadn't been using for about a year, only to discover that it has been taken over by this irritating troll character. The troll strikes me as someone who is lonely, paranoid, barely sane, lives in the middle of nowhere with lots of cats, and who obsessively posts to the group, off-topic, angrily and aggressively. Something like 4k posts in the past year.

I'm familiar with the conventional wisdom: get a good newsreader with a killfile, ignore the person, or start a moderated group (too much work) or find another forum, such as a web discussion.

I'm wondering--is there any other way to remove this person and restore what used to be a very useful, informative community, other than the above? And by "remove" I am not speaking euphemistically of "terminating with extreme prejudice."

Have you ever been able to spray for trolls successfully? [more inside]
posted by mecran01 on Nov 15, 2004 - 13 answers

Who is your usenet provider, and do you like them? Retention, uptime, number of groups, logless access... I know that milage varies according to what one is looking for in a news server, but what usenet providers have you had good and bad experiences with? (More) [more inside]
posted by squirrel on Jul 5, 2004 - 18 answers