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Old 03-09-2005, 02:03 PM
Phil L
 
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Amber wrote:
:: Do we have a moderator for this group or anyone who can get IP
:: addresses or more info about our serial trolls/spammers?

The group doesn't need a moderator, users can moderate it rthemselves if
they are prepared to be ruthless with their killfiles.

Go through the group and open each post in turn, if it's multi posted to
several groups it's a cross-posting troll and that person should be added to
the killfile, by going to 'message'block sender' OE will then block any
further posts from this person and remove any already here, do this for ten
minutes on each successive cross-poster and the group returns to normality,
moreover, you won't see the next round of X-posted garbage.
It's true that sone regular 'genuine' posters may end up in the killfile but
if they want to join in with the X-posting flamewars then they are as bad as
the trolls themselves and deserve to stay there.

(there is no limit to the amount of trolls you can killfile, mine has almost
300 entries)

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