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Wayne Boatwright wrote:
> (Dan Abel) wrote in
> :
>
>> 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?
>
> It may make no difference to you, Dan, but it does to me. It even infuriates
> me to see the name of particular posters. With kill and score files, I can
> avoid ever seeing any evidence that they exist in this or any other
> newsgroup.
>
> When I said posters like this should not be overlooked, in the same breath I
> realized that as long as the majority of posters accept their behavior there
> is no hope of "eliminating" them. Offensive posters can, in effect, be
> eliminated from a newsgroup by totally ignoring and never supporting a word
> they say. When the offender realizes that no one will ever respond to their
> rages and rants, they will usually disappear on their own. Obviously, this
> will never happen here.
>
>> 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.
>
> I wasn't suggesting that you answered Jim incorrectly, but we obviously have
> different views on how we would react. If I had a relative who consistly
> behaved boorishly, they would no longer be welcome in my home and I would
> avoid going where I knew they would be present. It's my problem if I can't
> deal with people like that, but it's also my choice whether or not I have to
> suffer their presence.
>
> In this newsgroup there are exactly two posters who reside permanently in my
> killfile. It has spared me the aggravation of even seeing their name.
>
> If none of this makes sense to you, that's okay. It doesn't have to. It
> makes perfect sense to me, and it works.
>
> Cheers!
>
Who is "Jim" and where did he get into this thread?