????everything snipped!

Unfortunately/fortunately, as I understand it, Google & uk.sci.weather have
no linkage that allows Google to stop a someone posting. Google *might*
block a user who has a gmail account and/or uses Google to post subject to
proper evidence and statistics. They cannot prevent a poster who does not
use their service from posting to uk.sci.weather. Abuse, however it's
defined, can be reported to the ISP provider or the newsgroup host...there
are an awful lot of newsgroup sites and ISP providers.

Because this is an un-moderated forum it is practically impossible to *ban*
anyone from posting permanently. You might be able to interrupt the posts
while an account is suspended but it's very easy to access the newsgroup
from elsewhere.

If anyone does not want to read the post of someone else then suggest you
get Windows Live Mail (yuk), Outlook Express (Win XP...it's ok) or the other
readers commented on by others. Control is yours to block or hide a poster,
or create rules to bin them. There are limitations though when the
"innocent" post a reply that contains un-edited content from whoever it is
you want to...avoid.


Looks like the High is reaching the limits of its retrogression...as is the
patience of a lot of people posting to this thread.

Great weather all the same.


Joe