Jerry Donovan wrote:
I use Outlook Express (version 6) and found a way to do a
pretty good job of filtering most of the off topic posts in this
newsgroup.

For that; might as well start your own private group. Because of all the
crossposting garbage will scare newbies away. The converstaions will be
among regular die hards, who has heavy duty filters. And the group will
die. The best protection is kill filing Carol and her phony advice. She
is a fraud her opn rec.ponds as she was a fraud on misc.alternative health.