Gene Kearns wrote:
On Wed, 26 Dec 2007 14:17:29 GMT, Mike Harrison penned the following
well considered thoughts to the readers of rec.boats:

Can anyone help me block these MI5 messages. I've tried using
M***5
as a subject line filter in Outlook Express (filtering the root newsgroup
directory), but it doesn't do the job.



Get a real news reader and dump Outlook Express for news. In fact,
you'd be well served to dump Outlook and/or Outlook Express even for
mail.

In fact, house of you out there using Google Groups should make a new
year's resolution to start using a standards compliant news
reader.....



It's hard to dump Outlook if the company you work for is large and has
it integrated into its IT functions and services. But not using Outlook
Express is the way to go. It's just awful.