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Does anything useful come from responding to trolls

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jamesgangnc

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May 14, 2008, 8:26:57 AM5/14/08
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If everyone simply did not reply to his posts he would go away.


Don Pearce

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May 14, 2008, 8:33:29 AM5/14/08
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jamesgangnc wrote:
> If everyone simply did not reply to his posts he would go away.
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You are assuming he has a remaining vestige of rationality - he hasn't.
He will stay, whatever.

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jamesgangnc

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May 14, 2008, 9:57:25 AM5/14/08
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"Don Pearce" <nos...@nospam.com> wrote in message
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Rationality has nothing to do with it. Imagine you are in a room full of
people but everyone in it acts like you do not exist. They ignore
everything you say. Would anyone not just leave after a while? Trolls goal
is to get attention. Take away the attention and problem solved.


Mr.T

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May 15, 2008, 1:23:14 AM5/15/08
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"jamesgangnc" <ja...@nospam.com> wrote in message
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> If everyone simply did not reply to his posts he would go away.

You're an optimist!

MrT.


Gareth Magennis

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May 15, 2008, 5:05:42 AM5/15/08
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"Mr.T" <MrT@home> wrote in message
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As there are Trolls, so there are Troll Feeders. They are inextricably
linked.


Gareth.


jamesgangnc

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May 15, 2008, 6:40:59 AM5/15/08
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"Gareth Magennis" <sound....@btconnect.com> wrote in message
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Sadly true......


Mats Peterson

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May 15, 2008, 8:51:36 AM5/15/08
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A merciless Perl regular expression in my kill.rc:

^(?:Message-ID|References):.*googlegroups

--
Mats Peterson
http://www.geocities.com/matsp888/

Gareth Magennis

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May 15, 2008, 9:15:39 AM5/15/08
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"Mats Peterson" <mats...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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So is that what they mean by "throwing Perl before swine?"


Gareth.


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