Do we have a moderator for this group or anyone who can get IP
addresses or more info about our serial trolls/spammers?

There isn't an effective one and there can't be as the group is open.
Time to get out the baseball bat if anyone knows who the idiot poster is.
The problem is that they could bring this newsgroup to it's knees.
Roddy

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Do we have a moderator for this group or anyone who can get IP
addresses or more info about our serial trolls/spammers?

"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?

On Fri, 2 Sep 2005 roddy wrote:

There isn't an effective one

There isn't one! Full stop!

and there can't be as the group is open.

Precisely.

Time to get out the baseball bat if anyone knows who the idiot poster is.
The problem is that they could bring this newsgroup to it's knees.

That's a little dramatic. The last time this happened was at the
beginning of the school holidays. This is at the end of the school
holidays and so it will soon calm down.

David

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David Rance http://www.mesnil.demon.co.uk
Fido Address: 2:252/110 writing from Caversham, Reading, UK

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Amber writes
Do we have a moderator for this group or anyone who can get IP
addresses or more info about our serial trolls/spammers?

As others have said, this is a non-moderated newsgroup.

1. They'll go away again after a while.

2. I've not really seen any of this, I assume my news service (ISP, out
sourced to Supernews) is filtering them out. ISTR new.individual.net did
the same.

3. If it really bothers you, you could change new server.
--
Chris French

"David Rance" wrote in message
...
"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?

On Fri, 2 Sep 2005 roddy wrote:

There isn't an effective one

There isn't one! Full stop!

and there can't be as the group is open.

Precisely.

Time to get out the baseball bat if anyone knows who the idiot poster is.
The problem is that they could bring this newsgroup to it's knees.

That's a little dramatic. The last time this happened was at the beginning
of the school holidays. This is at the end of the school holidays and so
it will soon calm down.

I hadn't thought of that!

We will just have to wait and see.

Alan

David

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Fido Address: 2:252/110 writing from Caversham, Reading, UK

not really bothering me, just as its the second time it had happened it
might be the same person and so was going to try and see who and
complain. To directly complain to an ISP most want useful info.

Well I have seen it happen to other groups; the serious posters move on and
leave the shell to the spammers et al; it does get tiresome.
Still there is always the closed newsgroup route.
Roddy
"David Rance" wrote in message
...
"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?

On Fri, 2 Sep 2005 roddy wrote:

There isn't an effective one

There isn't one! Full stop!

and there can't be as the group is open.

Precisely.

Time to get out the baseball bat if anyone knows who the idiot poster is.
The problem is that they could bring this newsgroup to it's knees.

That's a little dramatic. The last time this happened was at the
beginning of the school holidays. This is at the end of the school
holidays and so it will soon calm down.

David

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David Rance http://www.mesnil.demon.co.uk
Fido Address: 2:252/110 writing from Caversham, Reading, UK

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from "roddy" contains these words:

Well I have seen it happen to other groups; the serious posters move on and
leave the shell to the spammers et al; it does get tiresome.
Still there is always the closed newsgroup route.
Roddy

That isn't going to happen here, one of usenet's longest-established
groups with many longterm regular posters.

BTW, "serious posters" here don't top post, either.

Janet

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Janet Baraclough wrote:
The message
from "roddy" contains these words:

Well I have seen it happen to other groups; the serious posters move on and
leave the shell to the spammers et al; it does get tiresome.
Still there is always the closed newsgroup route.

No, we middle-post :-)

That isn't going to happen here, one of usenet's longest-established
groups with many longterm regular posters.

BTW, "serious posters" here don't top post, either.

Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

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Do we have a moderator for this group or anyone who can get IP
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My friend Mark does stirling work in this area :~)
Jenny

Heaven forbid !!

On Fri, 2 Sep 2005 21:39:08 +0100, Janet Baraclough
wrote:

The message
from "roddy" contains these words:

Well I have seen it happen to other groups; the serious posters move on and
leave the shell to the spammers et al; it does get tiresome.
Still there is always the closed newsgroup route.
Roddy

That isn't going to happen here, one of usenet's longest-established
groups with many longterm regular posters.

BTW, "serious posters" here don't top post, either.

Janet


Mike

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)

--
If God had intended us to drink beer, He would have given us stomachs.

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from (Nick Maclaren) contains these words:

matchpoint serious be

No, we middle-post :-)

cannot you

Janet

I'd rather snip than bottom post.
Too much stuff to go through same as middle posting.
Roddy

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roddy wrote:
I'd rather snip than bottom post.
Too much stuff to go through same as middle posting.
Roddy

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Depends what you want to say. If you have a comment on something in
the thread, then it's usually easier to understand if you leave a bit
of the original. Your example above stands the test because it's
self-contained. The thing about top-posting is that it's generally a
sign that the poster doesn't _care_ what anybody else has said: it's
rather like those disconcerting people you meet occasionally who, in
a conversation about rural bus services, suddenly throw in a
heartfelt remark about coastal erosion.

--
Mike.