If crossposting is frown upon, why is it possible? Did a troll invent
the crossposting mechanism?

In message , Joe Egginton
writes
If crossposting is frown upon, why is it possible? Did a troll invent
the crossposting mechanism?

There are occasions when crossposting is justifiable, because a post is
genuinely on-topic for two or more groups. An example might be the
effect of the weather on railway operations in the winter of 1946-7,
which might be of interest to readers of uk.railway as well as this
group. But such instances are rare.
--
John Hall Weep not for little Leonie
Abducted by a French Marquis!
Though loss of honour was a wrench
Just think how it's improved her French. Harry Graham (1874-1936)

On Wednesday, 6 August 2014 21:09:00 UTC+1, Malcolm wrote:
In article , Joe Egginton

writes

If crossposting is frown upon, why is it possible? Did a troll invent

the crossposting mechanism?



No, but trolls abuse it.



--

Malcolm

How is it worse than sock puppetry?

On 06/08/2014 21:23, Weatherlawyer wrote:
On Wednesday, 6 August 2014 21:09:00 UTC+1, Malcolm wrote:
In article , Joe Egginton

writes

If crossposting is frown upon, why is it possible? Did a troll invent

the crossposting mechanism?



No, but trolls abuse it.



--

Malcolm

How is it worse than sock puppetry?


Crickey, I thought the heat had got you as I first read the thread as
'Crossdressing' ~ hey ho !

--
Keith (Southend)
"Weather Home & Abroad"
http://www.southendweather.net
Twitter:@LawnscienceEssx

On Wednesday, 6 August 2014 20:57:59 UTC+1, John Hall wrote:
In message , Joe Egginton

writes

If crossposting is frown upon, why is it possible? Did a troll invent

the crossposting mechanism?



There are occasions when crossposting is justifiable, because a post is

genuinely on-topic for two or more groups. An example might be the

effect of the weather on railway operations in the winter of 1946-7,

which might be of interest to readers of uk.railway as well as this

group. But such instances are rare.

Most posters don't trouble themselves with ramifications because these days USenet groups are not typical university idea boards.

Usenet bulletins are a child of the blackboards posts in colleges for people like the cleaners to wrestle with complex maths problems out of office hours.

People like General Groves were the first to attempt to put a stop to it and of course the infamous William Hunting made a name for himself as a troll on such a board.

It goes without saying that such stifled academia would frown on any attempt to correlate the weather with other goings on in the various earth sciences -notoriously the ability to forecast earthquakes from the weather patterns with a faulty computer and a broken window vss an alleged weather expert and some of the finest computer tech in the business.

Sadly said weather expert no longer posts here because of such trolling. Maybe I should have been nicer.

On 06/08/2014 21:29, Keith (Southend) wrote:
On 06/08/2014 21:23, Weatherlawyer wrote:
On Wednesday, 6 August 2014 21:09:00 UTC+1, Malcolm wrote:
In article , Joe Egginton

writes

If crossposting is frown upon, why is it possible? Did a troll invent

the crossposting mechanism?



No, but trolls abuse it.



--

Malcolm

How is it worse than sock puppetry?


Crickey, I thought the heat had got you as I first read the thread as
'Crossdressing' ~ hey ho !



No I haven't gone that insane yet!

In Joe Egginton
wrote:

If crossposting is frown upon, why is it possible?

USENET is fragmented, with more than one newsgroup covering a single
topic area, or a topic may involve several interest areas.

Did a troll invent the crossposting mechanism?

No, but they use it.

For example, they might post to two newsgroups, like uk.sci.weather and
uk.politics.misc, with a topic that's completely unrelated to either one
of them.

--
St. Paul, MN

On Wednesday, 6 August 2014 21:29:43 UTC+1, Keith (Southend)G wrote:
On 06/08/2014 21:23, Weatherlawyer wrote:

On Wednesday, 6 August 2014 21:09:00 UTC+1, Malcolm wrote:

In article , Joe Egginton



writes



If crossposting is frown upon, why is it possible? Did a troll invent



the crossposting mechanism?







No, but trolls abuse it.







--



Malcolm



How is it worse than sock puppetry?





Crickey, I thought the heat had got you as I first read the thread as

'Crossdressing' ~ hey ho !



--

Keith (Southend)

"Weather Home & Abroad"

http://www.southendweather.net

Twitter:@LawnscienceEssx

I was a cross dresser until anger management therapy

On Wednesday, 6 August 2014 20:20:49 UTC+1, jumper wrote:
If crossposting is frown upon, why is it possible? Did a troll invent the crossposting mechanism?

What is possible and legal is not always appropriate. Take some responsibility FFS. Your attitude is childish.


Tudor Hughes, Warlingham, Surrey.

On Wednesday, 6 August 2014 21:29:43 UTC+1, Keith (Southend)G wrote:
On 06/08/2014 21:23, Weatherlawyer wrote:

On Wednesday, 6 August 2014 21:09:00 UTC+1, Malcolm wrote:

In article , Joe Egginton



writes



If crossposting is frown upon, why is it possible? Did a troll invent



the crossposting mechanism?







No, but trolls abuse it.







--



Malcolm



How is it worse than sock puppetry?

This generally the purpose of fake accounts:

The entire thing is super shady (don't talk about clients, don't talk about targets, ect. ect.) but is surprisingly well organized. They actually have three 'groups'.

Group A farms accounts, that is they make a bunch of social media accounts and forum accounts and spend all day contributing to these communities building up a reputation within that community. These accounts get passed off to Group B and sometimes are sold in batches.

Group B takes established accounts from Group A and actively ****s on client competitors ect. talks up/lies about the usefulness of their clients. Eventually Group B's reputation plummets and they are known to be a biased unreasonable person. Now they go to Group C

Group C essentially is cold storage used for new clients that may require your services against old clients. Having a community member with a history of supporting client A suddenly endorse their competitor or perhaps even start to change their tune about client A is a useful service.

Of course given how shady they do everything clients don't know that they are working for both sides...it's a total ****show.

http://www.vice.com/read/trolls-paid...y-articles-806

Obviously Dawlish isn't in that league he is far too naive.
But for reasons that lack explanation a team of Usenet abusers think it is good sense to overwhelm a thread full of reason with one of rhetoric.

Let's start one off:

The GOES format at the moment literally shows the free fall of cold air into a calm lower atmosphere, transforming the outer margins of the Hadley Cells in two oceans into trains of vortex clouds.

One in the North Pacific is running west north west from Mexico to China, the other is running north east from Mexico to Europe.

This effect or phenomenon has the theory of Coriolis effect by the short and curlies. Which raises the question:
What colour is carbon dioxide?