Shhhh... Just let the trolls annoy themselves. Plonk 'em and move on. It's too easy. Sometimes I'll do a google groups search and see that there were 10 times more posts to a single thread. All of it had been filter by my kill file.
Phil M.
-- "Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself." Martin Vanbee
Shhhh... Just let the trolls annoy themselves. Plonk 'em and move on. It's too easy. Sometimes I'll do a google groups search and see that there were 10 times more posts to a single thread. All of it had been filter by my kill file.
I got a new laptop the other week and when I set up my newsreader I checked out rec.running for the first time in a long, long time without a filter. It's like a different world! 100's of posts a day instead of 20. I noticed the trolls talk a lot to each other now, too. It was all inane rubbish.
If I was new to computers and came across this group now, with no idea of how to filter it, I think I'd give up.
cheers, -- David (in Hamilton, ON) www.allfalldown.org www.absolutelyaccurate.com