Telamon wrote:

In article , running dogg wrote:

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You can be anyone you want on the 'Net, and can stir up a ****storm
the likes of which the world has never seen. Just witness the posts
here. Some folks think for days on a question to pose that will
generate such a maelstrom of replies. This is their life.

On an internet board local to me, there was somebody who came in and
took over the board, posting 30 times a day (out of 40 posts a day) and
insulting everyone, trying to get people banned from the group, etc.
Things have quieted down now, but she's still there, insulting people
and making stupid remarks. I've had a net connection for 10 years, so
I'm used to it, but it's still frustrating.

Use a kill file. A stinking Troll can post 1000 a day and it won't
matter to you. Ignoring Trolls works. We just had one come and go in
record time. He probable would have left even sooner if the one or two
people still responding to him would have stopped. These jerks live to
get a rise out of you and will leave if ignored. ignoring them deprives
them of their "fun."

This particular board (the local one) is Web based and doesn't have a
killfile. However, you can "flag" individual posts for removal by the
admins, and they can ban certain email addresses. On here, I can easily
ignore certain posters without a killfile since on usenet each article
has to have an "author name" and the vast majority of trolls aren't
smart enough to keep changing it. The smarter ones keep changing their
email addresses to avoid killfiles, but not their author names. So their
posts are easily recognizable and ignorable. I should take my own advice
and stop responding to political posts, I tend to be rather passionate
about politics but this isn't the place for it.

Me? I'll stick to posting and reading logs, Dogg! :-D

I'll post logs whenever I get a chance.

You do that.

I will. Usually I don't wake up early enough to do some DXing, but I
will be doing so in the future most likely, so I will be posting more
logs. Usually I just focus on one band a day and write down everything I
can hear on that band, which means my logs are a mix of big boys and
small stations.


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