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Old 14-12-2006, 03:15 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening
Alan Holmes Alan Holmes is offline
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"Farm1" please@askifyouwannaknow wrote in message
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"Cat(h)" wrote in message

This is usenet,
after all. However, my experience of URG is that it is an
exceptionally mature and really good newsgroup, with focussed
contributors generous with sharing their experience and expertise,
little feeding of trolls and practically no entertainment of the
occasional headcase who inevitably cross-posts or passes through.


Yes it IS usenet and we are all used to trolls. However, what does
one do when the headcases become one of the "regular contributors"
and that headcase gives bad advice or is mixes in trolling along with
some garden advice?


Killfiling is the only answer.

I've pondering this long and hard and I've decided to just killfile
but I do have some sympathy for those new to gardening who, through
lack of any reasoned/unreasoned response to that poor advice, may take
the info onboard and act upon it.


Perhaps we should publish a list of objectionable posters and recomend to
all newcomers that they should killfile them all.

Alan