Wayne Boatwright > wrote in
:
> (Dan Abel) wrote in news:dabel-0212041315270001@ssu-
> 64en129.sonoma.edu:
>
>> It's the same way on this newsgroup. A regular says something
>> obnoxious, and maybe it will be ignored because of the previous
>> valuable things they have posted. A newcomer posts the same thing,
>> and since that is all we have to judge them on, we dump on them.
>>
>
> Dan, I can agree to a point, but when a regular continually posts
> obnoxious, smutty, degrading things, especially when it's about
> another poster, it should _not_ be overlooked. Alas, here in RFC, is
> is. Luckily, kill files and score files can eliminate their presence
> forever.
>
Such is life on Usenet. The kf and score files are very useful. OTOH,
sometimes the devil surfaces in me, and I like to goad the trolls. I know
I'm bad. I just can't help myself sometimes. I've tried to be good lately
and have not stirred the pot too much. I think the biggest irritant for me
is the crossposted threads unrelated to RFC. The good news is, I can kf all
crossposted threads. The bad news is, the thread name changes and I have
to do it all over again.
Michael