Yea, there is always some bad stuff out there. What I always wondered about was the stuff that you couldn't tell what it was. Codes, cyphers and other things posted for reasons that just weren't obvious. I followed one set of posts for a couple of weeks till I figured out they were smugglers. Posts like: 237 1000 g6 2kg +3 The clue was at the end of every post they added a line such as" +3" Which meant jump up 3 newsgroups to reply to the post. Then it started to make sense 237 was the flight number, and 1000 was 10Am, g6 was the gate number, 2kg weight etc. Once you strung a few of the posts together it was pretty clear what was going on. Did you ever hear one of those number channels on shortwave? Where they read a series of numbers all day long? Weird stuff.