XPost: comp.programming 
 From: tgm2tothe10thpower@replacetextwithnumber.hotmail.com 
  
 Programmer Dude  coughed up the following: 
  
 > Thomas G. Marshall writes: 
 > 
 >> And a troll getting a visual ignored response will make it IMHO 
 >> /less/ likely he'll engage the plonker again.  Again, I'm suspecting 
 >> this, I really don't know. 
 > 
 > Ah, Thomas, you've run into an ancient paradigm: Forgiveness is much 
 > easier to get than permission. 
 > 
 > Just try it (briefly).  See what the results are *for* *real*. 
 > 
 > Remember, people are just as hidebound and set in their ways on the 
 > amUSENET as they are in the Real Life. 
  
  
 Yep, and I've discovered that over the years regarding other things as 
 well. 
  
 Like {author looks around for rock throwers} using html in posts.  Seems 
 only a matter of time to me, as it was with email.  People forget the 
 mini-war that ensued when email started getting formatting.  In the 
 beginning I heard nothing but "email is a text only medium, you're just 
 aggravating people." 
  
  
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