Re: The 'steins - The Eulogy

On Wed, 07 Oct 1998 12:43:36 GMT, sa...@wow.com (Sam) wrote:

>Why do people tolerate hostile fools in this group?  This was a nice
>group at one time. Please ignore the fool, and if you have kill filter
>abiltiy, commit him to one.  If just most people would practice this
>simple rule, the hostile punks would be unseen and unread. 

If you had witnessed this group over its 5 year life since September 1993
you would have seen that it has varied from "nice to nasty" in
periods throughout that time.


>I also think that people who insist on responding to these punks ought
>to be placed in a filter.  

Filters and killfiles only hide what is happening from those individuals
who use them...they don't make trolls, punks, flamers and their
responders go away. If they did we would not have had several outbreaks
of "The Stein Wars" over about a 2 year period.

The effective answer is for everyone in a newsgroup to strictly ignore
those postings and totally resist the temptation to respond to any and
all of those postings. That is Usenet's time-honoured anti-troll method
and ultimately it reall does work once every user of a newsgroup adopts
and strictly adheres to the method.

Unfortunately, in a newsgroup like alt.ascii-art that is very difficult
to achieve. 

Regular users of the newsgroup will participate fully but there is a
relatively large inflow of newcomers who find "alt.ascii-art"...think
that it looks good fun and jump into the newsgroup and engage in any
flamewars that may be running at the time.

It is my personal choice not use killfiles because in my view they simply
put "blinkers" or blindfolds on the users of those killfiles/filters but
leave the problems still there and unresolved.

Bye,

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