In article ,
wrote:

On Sat, 10 Nov 2007 11:51:33 CST, Kurt
wrote:

In article ,
~ jan wrote:

On Fri, 9 Nov 2007 22:04:40 CST, Kurt wrote:

Easy solution: If they don't get attention they gradually stop posting.
Don't respond. Email their news provider, don't waste time responding to
their baiting.

No posts in that entire group today.

Using the killfile feature is really all you need.

Two years of suggesting/doing the above, some just wouldn't do it or play
nice. The current RP is no history of what it was a year ago. My killfile
was so huge, it would have taken a ream of paper to print it off. And let's
not forget the nonsense flooding that still occurs. ~ jan
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Zone 7a, SE Washington State
Ponds: www.jjspond.us

But now that group has had no posts in 2 days.

Trust me, it __would__ start again.
You would need to know more about who some of our trolls were,
and why they were determined to destroy the group (which they
did).

Have you ever used the "Agent" newsreader? If so, I could send
you a rar file containing all the messages from late-2004 till
late-2006. If you opened it and inserted it into Agent, you would
clearly see what the problem was. No amount of kill-filtering could
solve it.
But what was _far_ worse, the atmosphere was so poisoned
that any newcomers who dropped in were immediately driven off.
Old-timers could use the medicine (kill-filters) and maybe hang on,
but the community itself was so poisoned that the result was fatal.

(Actually, I have most of the messages of rec.ponds packaged,
going back to the late 90's -the good old days that lasted til
2005.)

(In case you're wondering who I am, I helped get rpm started
last fall/winter.)

Ron Schompert

PS: A one-year anniversary is coming up on Nov. 25th. On that day, a
guy named George naively suggested the idea of starting a moderated
group.


I've never heard of such ferocious and consistant attacks on a group
that, in theory, should lack any sort of controversy, and I've been in
some pretty wild ones.

The rec.ponds group had over 10,000 posts archived through my news
service. Saw a lot of the usual suspects who had been cross spamming
everywhere, but most were just a lot of the usual yahoos that get into
every group.

Guess ponders are a stranger bunch than I thought... ;-)

I shy away from PCs, so I use the excellent MTNewswatcher on our Macs.

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