On Tue, 13 Jan 2004 15:32:42 +0000, Nick Wagg
wrote:
tony wrote:
When are we going to get rid of the political cross-posting from this
group and get back to the topic of GARDENING?
The political cross-posts and various flames and trolls are not from
the regular contributors to u.r.g. but from a group of people who
delight in spoiling other people's fun.
Really, the only thing we can do is to ignore them and hope they will
go away. They thrive when old (and young) fogeys like us take umbrage
and shake our metaphorical sticks at them.
Of course, if you really know what you are doing you might be able to
track them down and report them for abuse to their ISPs but they
probably do all their dirty work from anonymous accounts and cyber
cafes, in which case there is nothing you can do because they aren't
breaking any laws.
It's a consequence of anonymity and power without responsibility or
answerability!
If you want to live in a secluded world where only like minded idiots
frequent, why not start your own moderated group?
Only do it in secret please, most of us really don't care.
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There are 5,951,930,035 people poorer than me
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Newsgroup ettiquette
1) Tell everyone the Trolls don't bother you.
2) Say you've killfiled them, yet continue to respond.
3) Tell other people off who repsond despite doing so yourself.
4) Continually talk about Trolls while maintaining
they're having no effect.
5) Publicly post killfile rules so the Trolls know
how to avoid them.
6) Make lame legal threats and other barrel scraping
manoeuvres when your abuse reports are ignored.
7) Eat vast quantities of pies.
8) Forget to brush your teeth for several decades.
9) Help a demon.local poster with their email while
secretly reading it.
10) Pretend you're a hard ******* when in fact you're
as bent as a roundabout.
11) Become the laughing stock of Usenet like Mabbet
12) Die of old age
13) Keep paying Dr Chartham his fees and hope one day you
will have a penis the girls can see.
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