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26-12-2004, 05:52 PM

In article ,
says...
How does one distinguish from a real novice, and a nasty troller.

Well, a good start is to look at the full headers and see how badly
they've been munged up to disguise the source. Next, is the question
really off the wall or the statements meant to incite. Both of these
together usually mean a troll. Note the "usually".

And it isn't always malicious. For example, the recent posts to every
newsgroup in sight by "Bruno Bean". Turns out the "scot.ltd" group is
having a contest to see who can pull the most responses. At least
that's what another poster told me. So if you see that group in the
list, you KNOW it's a troll.

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