XPost: comp.programming 
 From: Trevor-Hemsley@no.spam.dial.pipex.com 
  
 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 - and 
 probably would if they saw that you had an automatic reply agent in 
 place. 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. 
  
 Just filter the buggers and get on with life. 
  
 -- 
 Trevor Hemsley, Brighton, UK. 
 Trevor-Hemsley@dial.pipex.com 
  
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