Is there no way that the current rash of lunatic,racialist,misogynistic,and
plain evil posts be diverted or quarantined from this group ?.
I suspect that Damien is possibly deranged,and probably needs help,but in
the meantime every twisted troll that haunt these NGs gather around his
posts like bees around a honeypot,and most of their stuff is either
obscene,vitriolic,or just plain barmy.
So,please,can anything be done to protect us from this very unpleasant
malaise ?

RonB

On Tue, 1 Feb 2005 10:32:49 -0000, Ron Button wrote in


Is there no way that the current rash of lunatic,racialist,misogynistic,and
plain evil posts be diverted or quarantined from this group ?.

Unlike forums, absolutely anyone may post to Usenet, so the answer is a
"no".

I suspect that Damien is possibly deranged,and probably needs help,but in
the meantime every twisted troll that haunt these NGs gather around his
posts like bees around a honeypot,and most of their stuff is either
obscene,vitriolic,or just plain barmy.
So,please,can anything be done to protect us from this very unpleasant
malaise ?

The only way forward is to totally ignore such posts. Most news readers
give you the ability to both "kill file" particular posters and threads.
With my reader I have just done that, so further posts on a particular
topic and by certain posters, in any thread, just won't show in my list of
new posts.

I see you are using OE - you highlight a particular message, then go up to
"Message" on the top bar and go down to "Create rule from message"

--
Mike 55.13°N 6.69°W Coleraine posted to uk.sci.weather 01/02/2005 10:44:15 UTC

Ron Button wrote:
Is there no way that the current rash of lunatic,racialist,misogynistic,and
plain evil posts be diverted or quarantined from this group ?.
I suspect that Damien is possibly deranged,and probably needs help,but in
the meantime every twisted troll that haunt these NGs gather around his
posts like bees around a honeypot,and most of their stuff is either
obscene,vitriolic,or just plain barmy.
So,please,can anything be done to protect us from this very unpleasant
malaise ?

RonB



Unfortunately I think not Ron. I suspect that all the trolls are one
person. Maybe two or three at the most. Probably a gang of schoolboys
pratting about.

Best thing is to ignore, and they'll go and take the pee out of somebody
else.



--
Joe
Wolverhampton

Ron Button wrote:
Is there no way that the current rash of lunatic,racialist,misogynistic,and
plain evil posts be diverted or quarantined from this group ?.
I suspect that Damien is possibly deranged,and probably needs help,but in
the meantime every twisted troll that haunt these NGs gather around his
posts like bees around a honeypot,and most of their stuff is either
obscene,vitriolic,or just plain barmy.
So,please,can anything be done to protect us from this very unpleasant
malaise ?

The simple way is to use your killfile and Killthread facilities. The
only time that I see any of these posts is when a person, who is not in
my killfile, replies to one of these posts and leaves the offensive
matter in. Unless the thread has been killed, of course. If nobody
responds to their posts they tend to go and play elsewhere.

--
Howard Neil

In article ,
Ron Button writes:
Is there no way that the current rash of lunatic,racialist,misogynistic,and
plain evil posts be diverted or quarantined from this group ?.

It seems unlikely, unless the posters go so far as to contravene their
ISP's Acceptable Use Policy. Traditionally, abuse on the Net, as opposed
to abuse of the Net, has been allowed, rightly or wrongly.

The best solution is probably self-help. I believe even Outlook Express
(which I see from your headers that you're using) allows you to killfile
posters so that you won't see their posts.
--
John Hall
"Honest criticism is hard to take,
particularly from a relative, a friend,
an acquaintance, or a stranger." Franklin P Jones

Mike Tullett wrote:
On Tue, 1 Feb 2005 10:32:49 -0000, Ron Button wrote in


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I suspect that Damien is possibly deranged,and probably needs
help,but in the meantime every twisted troll that haunt these NGs
gather around his posts like bees around a honeypot,and most of
their stuff is either obscene,vitriolic,or just plain barmy.
So,please,can anything be done to protect us from this very
unpleasant malaise ?

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I see you are using OE - you highlight a particular message, then go
up to "Message" on the top bar and go down to "Create rule from
message"

You could do it that way, or you could select the next option on that menu,
"Block Sender".

--
Rob Overfield
Hull
http://www.astrosport02.karoo.net/YorkshireWeather/

"Rob Overfield" wrote in message
news
Mike Tullett wrote:
On Tue, 1 Feb 2005 10:32:49 -0000, Ron Button wrote in


snipped

I suspect that Damien is possibly deranged,and probably needs
help,but in the meantime every twisted troll that haunt these NGs
gather around his posts like bees around a honeypot,and most of
their stuff is either obscene,vitriolic,or just plain barmy.
So,please,can anything be done to protect us from this very
unpleasant malaise ?

snipped

I see you are using OE - you highlight a particular message, then go
up to "Message" on the top bar and go down to "Create rule from
message"

You could do it that way, or you could select the next option on that
menu,
"Block Sender".

Come on Rob, you know how to do it properly. What's changed?

--
SB

"John Hall" wrote in message
...
In article ,
Ron Button writes:
Is there no way that the current rash of
lunatic,racialist,misogynistic,and
plain evil posts be diverted or quarantined from this group ?.

It seems unlikely, unless the posters go so far as to contravene their
ISP's Acceptable Use Policy. Traditionally, abuse on the Net, as opposed
to abuse of the Net, has been allowed, rightly or wrongly.

The best solution is probably self-help. I believe even Outlook Express
(which I see from your headers that you're using) allows you to killfile
posters so that you won't see their posts.

From what I can view of this group there's no Proper Trolling in this group.
It's just people with a difference of opinion and from my vast knowledge of
ISPs. They do not take any abuse report serious unless it is abusive. There
is none in this group. They will just laugh at you if you report someone for
not agreeing with you or simply you just don't like them.

--
SB et al

On Tue, 1 Feb 2005 10:32:49 -0000, "Ron Button"
wrote:

Is there no way that the current rash of lunatic,racialist,misogynistic,and
plain evil posts be diverted or quarantined from this group ?.
I suspect that Damien is possibly deranged,and probably needs help,but in
the meantime every twisted troll that haunt these NGs gather around his
posts like bees around a honeypot,and most of their stuff is either
obscene,vitriolic,or just plain barmy.
So,please,can anything be done to protect us from this very unpleasant
malaise ?

I agree with the others, you can't stop 'em but the one (using
aliases) or very few people involved are easy to spot and ignore. I
don't even bother to killfile them any more, I just let 'em get on
with talking to themselves.

--
Dave

On Tue, 01 Feb 2005 10:32:49 +0000, that Ron Button wrote:

Is there no way that the current rash of lunatic,racialist,misogynistic,and
plain evil posts be diverted or quarantined from this group ?.
I suspect that Damien is possibly deranged,and probably needs help,but in
the meantime every twisted troll that haunt these NGs gather around his
posts like bees around a honeypot,and most of their stuff is either
obscene,vitriolic,or just plain barmy.
So,please,can anything be done to protect us from this very unpleasant
malaise ?

RonB

If you're using Windows, you can install nfilter from here -
http://www.nfilter.org/
FAQ - http://www.nfilter.org/faq.html
It works with Agent, OE etc.
"Nfilter is capable of filtering on any fields that appear in the header
of a news article, not just fields in the overview (normally news clients
can only filter on author, subject, etc). For example, it can filter on
path (eg. all posts from news.foo.net), newsgroups (eg. all posts
cross-posted to alt.foo), nntp-posting-host, etc, etc."


If anyone's using linux, you can use Leafnode from here -
http://leafnode.sourceforge.net/
Leafnode can killfile on *any* header, so no matter if the troll morphs,
you can kill on a header he has no control over.

HTH.