XPost: comp.programming 
 From: graham.drabble@lineone.net 
  
 On 06 Jun 2004 "Thomas G. Marshall" 
  wrote in 
 news:5uIwc.11175$QT3.9443@nwrdny01.gnilink.net: 
  
 > 
 > I've been interested in the following, but am not sure if it 
 > violates the ethics and charter of usenet. 
 > 
 > Please tell me if I'm asking this in the wrong place. 
  
 It's OK for ngq, I don't know about c.p. 
  
 > I've noticed that there are many miscreants out there that flame 
 > away, and even /prefer/ to become plonked, because it gives them 
 > freedom of sorts to respond to the plonkers without argument. 
 > This is bad for the others to see. 
  
 I disagree with your last point. Seeing that someone has the confidence 
 and maturity to totally ignore trolls rather than continually baiting 
 them is a good thing. 
  
 > Is this ok for a newsreader to do? 
 > 
 >     1. If a user is bozo-bin'd by you, then 
 >     2.    /IF/ he responds to a post of yours, then 
 >     3.        Your newsreader replies with post with the subject: 
 > 
 >         " automatically ignored by newsreader" 
 > 
 > with a body of 
 > 
  
  
 > Or somesuch. 
 > 
 > Remember, it /only/ would happen if a plonked user responded 
 > /directly/ to your post.  Further, it would not happen to a reply 
 > to an autoplonk message, as this could cycle itself out of control 
 > should both parties plonk each other, and have each autoplonk 
 > message respond to each other. 
 > 
 > *Does this already exist in a newsreader somewhere*, and/or is 
 > this a terrible idea? 
  
 It's pretty bad. For one it would very quickly become cancellable spam. 
 BI>20 is all that matters not topicality. It would also add to the 
 noise in the group. 
  
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