Posted on 30-Dec-2001 18:30 GMT by Christian Kemp | 71 comments View flat View list |
It seems I cannot even be away for 4 days without some sick bastard trying to post crap on ANN and ruin it for everyone. Sometimes, I really wonder if it's worth the time, money and effort to keep the site going.
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MOTD 30/Dec/2001 : Comment 46 of 71 | ANN.lu |
Posted by Not Saying on 30-Dec-2001 23:23 GMT | The following was posted in part, to usenet. Though directed at
usenet, I'm sure the same mindset applies here.
Not posting who I am because this party has shown they hit on those who
respond (No Duh! given the following)
Also another Usenet poster suggested www.web-police.org
Consider how this thread and the following suggest this "problem" is
thanking you all:
From nobody@nym.alias.net 27 Dec 2001 13:30:02 -0000
From: autoresponder <nobody@nym.alias.net>
*** IF YOU ARE COMPLAINING ABOUT ANNOYING USENET USERS
If you are angered by someone's postings on usenet and would like to
see that person's account terminated, first consider this: Given the
size of usenet, it is simply not possible to prevent a particular
person from posting articles. Moreover, someone who deliberately
posts offensive or annoying material to a newsgroup may be doing it
specifically to get a reaction out of people. Canceling such people's
E-mail accounts typically has two effects: First it tends to make
them quite gleeful, as usenet trollers enjoy both the attention an
account closing gives them and the fact that they can gloat over
failed attempts to "censor" them. Second, closing accounts drives
abusers to post from more and different addresses, making their trolls
far more difficult to delete or ignore in an automated fashion.
If some juvenile brat is disrupting a newsgroup you subscribe to with
posts specifically designed to annoy people and draw flames, the best
thing you can do is to ignore those posts and not give the troller the
satisfaction of seeing a response. Fortunately, through a mechanism
called killfiles, many news readers can automatically delete
undesirable articles before you even have to look at them. For more
information on killfiles, you can consult the killfile FAQ at
http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/killfile-faq/faq.html. |
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