In article >, Wayne Boatwright
> wrote:
> (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.
You've totally lost me, Wayne. What is the difference between
"overlooking" and using a kill file? Aren't you "overlooking" someone
when you killfile them?
I may not have answered Jim correctly. I don't have killfile capability,
so I just ignore certain obnoxious posters. That doesn't mean that I
condone their actions, it just means that I realize that I can do nothing
about them. If Jim is upset because we haven't gotten ridden of certain
obnoxious posters, it's because there isn't anything we can do. There's
no law against being nasty on a newsgroup.
--
Dan Abel
Sonoma State University
AIS