On 22 Jan 2008 17:18:02 -0600, +Grant <+Grant@grant.grant> employed an
infinite number of monkeys on an infinite number of typewriter to say:
>In article <fn5naf$e73$1@aioe.org>, floppy <floppy@flop.com> wrote:
>
>> Suggestion to all: learn to use your newsreader's filtering capabilities,
>> and:
>>
>> (1) filter out all the trolls.
>> (2) do NOT reply to their posts
>> (3) if you must reply, do not quote any of their text, since that won't be
>> filtered.
>>
>> I have no idea what the most active trolls are saying, since I never see
>> their posts. And: how much more pleasant my usenet experience has become
>> as a result.
>>
>> Ping VV re legality: I hate to say it, but we probably can't be too sure
>> about the legality of some of the material here, as ridiculous as that
>> sounds. Remember that in some places just about anything can be construed
>> to be cp these days. Anything where genitals are visible is risky,
>> or that seems at all "lewd" even if not nude. You just can't trust
>> puritanical courts or obsessed lawmakers in this, the age of hysteria.
>>
>> Encrypt everything with a reliable open source encryption program.
>> Preferably encrypt your whole operating system if using Windows.
>>
>>
>
>I agree with everything you said.
>
>Its stupidly bad tactics to deliberately inflame your enemies more than
>you absolutely have to. "Tedn'Alice" did that a whole lot and did much
>more to damage the BL society that I don't want to say in public. I
>don't want to give enemies ideas if they don't have them. I told him I
>didn't like his and Forsooths troll-baiting and why.
>It's bad strategy and dangerous to underestimate your enemy. usenetters
>can do a lot to cause problems even legal ones for posters. Trolls have
>done this and more I don't want to say in public. Its stupid
>self-destructive to beg them to do more.
>
>Personal stuff next.
>I have enough of a problem reconciling the "immorality" of being a BL
>with my religion. I don't want to compound that by acting like a troll
>myself. If we can't be better than them in our sexuality which we can't
>help at least we can be better human beings than they are and not piss
>them off just for the perverse pleasure of it. They have to do it for
>psychological reasons but *we* don't have to and so we shouldn't.
If you think I'm a troll, you're mistaken. Nothing could be further
from the truth. The fact is that I was away from Usenet for about
three years. I didn't have the time to devote to this diversion and I
just went on about my RL business. Now, I have some small amount of
time to spare, so I have returned.
My complaint is simple. This is not a binaries group nor is it a boy
lovers group. There are already groups long established for those
things, so I suggest you move on to them with your vices, no matter
how I may feel about them. I certainly won't be following you there.
--
mhm 29x8
"Enemy to those who make him an enemy. Friend to those who have no
friend."
--from the intro to the Boston Blackie radio show (1945)
"You don't have to be a member of the KKK to be a wizard under the sheets"
Proud member of the I am Spooge lits
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