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" BOB" > wrote in
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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?

LOL I dunno. That's who Dan said he answered.

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