In article , Joe Pfeiffer wrote:

While newsgroups in general are dying out, one of the major problems
this one has is the need to wade through mountains of political crap to
read an occasional machining post. Anybody still reading it for
machining is being really stubborn (yes, I'm including myself there).

*That* problem is easily solved by filtering out anything that's crossposted
to misc.survivalism and any group that has "politics" in its name.