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September 14th 05, 03:13 PM

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Bill wrote:
I'm beginning to wonder if shortwave is off topic here.

Bill

We do have a 'troll' problem. There's no doubt about it. I don't
understand the whole process of creating and managing usenet newgroups
very well. However, there are things that can be done about this
problem, if people get sufficiently ticked off. It's sad to imagine
this group as 'moderated', but who knows....maybe that's what it will
take.

Steve

For a newsgroup to be moderated, it has to be done at the time the
newsgroup is created. After it is in wide use there is no way to
change it other than to create a new, moderated newsgroup. The other
approach is for a lot of the users to report, and keep reporting the
worst off topic users to their providers, till they lose their
accounts. That takes a lot of time and a lot of people, but it is the
way newsgroups are supposed to self police themselves. Of course, the
offenders start screaming "NetKop" when it happens, but they are the
ones creating the problem in the first place. I have written this group
off as mostly useless. I don't think there is enough left to save.
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Michael A. Terrell
Central Florida