XPost: comp.programming 
 From: tgm2tothe10thpower@replacetextwithnumber.hotmail.com 
  
 Trevor Hemsley  coughed up the 
 following: 
  
 > On Mon, 7 Jun 2004 17:52:59 UTC in news.groups.questions, "Thomas G. 
 > Marshall"  
 > wrote: 
 > 
 >> I get the suspicion that people are thinking of this as a continual 
 >> posting of blocked messages, when it's not---it would be rare, only 
 >> when the troll attempts a direct reply to someone who has plonked 
 >> him. 
 > 
 > But since a troll's usual purpose in a group is to disrupt it, you're 
 > really playing right into their hands. You'll never see any of their 
 > replies so they could post 100's of them without you knowing 
  
 Huh?  No, I'd see my automated reply. 
  
  
  - and 
 > probably would if they saw that you had an automatic reply agent in 
 > place. 
  
 No, because one of the rules is that it would auto reply only *once* per 
 subthread, and never to a reply to an autogenerated reply, etc. 
  
  
  
 > This would almost certainly p... off all the other residents of 
 > that group and maybe even lead to you losing your ISP account for 
 > spamming. 
  
 You're missing the safeguards that I'm suggesting. 
  
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