Re: Spamming this group - has ignoring it really helped?

In article <f5ungm$n5g$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
"Pete Holland Jr." <peterg@xxxxxxx> wrote:

Captain Nerd wrote:


So, I've been restraining myself from responding to the trolls
and spammers that started showing up here. Has it really made
that much difference? I haven't noticed any indication that they
have given up and gone away due to boredom. In fact, I'm seeing
more each day, and it's hard to keep the killfile updated. I
am willing to bet they don't even think about this group, since
we seem to be accepting their antics as normal. I'm ready to
start fighting back, but if no one else cares, I'm not going to
bother. If it gets bad enough I'll move on to whatever online
blogs I feel like contributing to, and the trolls can have yet
another playground to add to their collection. Broken windows,
and all that.

I don't use spam filters and killfiles because I'm always wondering if
someone with a legit post is going to get swept out because of it.
Besides, if I don't like certain posters, I can simply see their name and
skip over it. The volume on this board is not as bad as, say, 24 Hour Tech
Help.

I just want to caution you. Giving up the group happens too often. I
wouldn't unless a lot of the other regulars give up on it. It's
disappointing to go to a Usenet group and finding it turned into Craig's
List Lite.

I'm worried that if no one cares enough to try anything, that by
default this group will become just like the others in their list of
targets. I really hate losing by forfeit.


And people like me can help by writing descriptive headers so that people
can tell if they would actually like to read the message. No slam on you,
but I think I've been sluffing off on that a little lately.

Which will only work as long as they don't hijack threads. Which
fortunately they haven't, to date.

Cap.

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