Nick Byford wrote:
I have been coming to this group for a couple or three weeks now and am
finding many postings that have absolutely nothing to do with the subject
matter.

Usenet tradition. If you ignore trolls they eventually die out. We
had very little of this sort of thing last year, it comes and goes.

Suggestions please.
Killfiles and filters help. Filtering on cross-posting removes the
worst problems. Just be grateful the emm-eye-five man is not an
urgler: he rather clogs up our sister group, the shedde.