From: rra@stanford.edu 
  
 Steve Young  writes: 
 > "Russ Allbery"  wrote: 
  
 >> Constantly responding to trolls with the same post is one of the most 
 >> obnoxious things that I think the non-trolls can do.  It borders on 
 >> newsgroup flooding, just like the trolling does, and is almost as 
 >> abusive.  It seems to be the recourse of people who know that they 
 >> shouldn't be feeding the trolls but who haven't quite mustered 
 >> sufficient self-control to actually not do it. 
  
 > It's impossible to see them and not tripp on one here or there 
 > These are some *bad* *ass* trolls Usenet has. 
 > It's impossible to always say no 
 > You even get *your* *share* of the fun lovin, Russ :) 
 > (I saw you redirect that political post the other day) 
 > (but not without putting in a couple good licks first  ) 
  
 You seem to be having a different conversation than I'm having.  I was 
 specifically talking about repeated followups to trolls with the same 
 message text, which clearly isn't what you're talking about.  Did I 
 somehow not manage to make clear what I was talking about?  I don't see 
 any way to read my post above in the way that you apparently read it, but 
 then I wrote it, so I would feel that way. 
  
 BTW, we get a regular stream of people who post to news.groups to talk 
 about current events, usually under a mistaken understanding of what 
 news.* means or because of a too-prominent placement in Google.  Some of 
 them might be trolls, but most of them are just confused. 
  
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 Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)              
  
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