"Alan W" wrote ...
Can someone give a hint how to supress even the headers from showing
in Xnews for a recent TROLL attacks? Occassionally my children like
to read my mail and news with me, I've had to chase them off the last
week or so.

NewsProxy aka nfilter does that. Here's how it works:

NewsProxy downloads just a subset of the information in the
headers of all the posts.

It applies the filters you tell it to apply.

Any post that gets caught by a "drop" rule, doesn't get downloaded,
and it's headers do not even get to your newsreader. Nor do dropped
posts consume any bandwidth other than the header-subset download.

Undropped posts get downloaded, possibly modified if you told
it to do so, and displayed.

The Internet is so full of garbage these days that I run
NewsProxy (for USENET), SpamAssasin Proxy (for mail)
and Webwasher (for pop-ups, ads and so on). Good thing
I have a realtively-fast P4 and a DSL line.
--
Dennis M. O'Connor