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

Captain Nerd wrote:

Yeah, I'll agree, basic Fred Flinstone "Hold it, HOOOLD IT, holdit-holdit-holdit!" moment:
A goofy Unfrozen 90's-Caveman RSPW-barbarian troll dies overnight on this group, gets a couple sucker breaks on some other barbarian group that doesn't know how to clean their headers, keeps our group on the crosspost list just to nyah-nyah us "fagboy otakus" who smart-slapped him in front of all the other groups :-P , and then hit some dream "Wrestling/Obit Headline" temporary
gold-vein by pure coincidence that ONLY a 90's Unfrozen Trollboy would still think was "shock" material in 2007...And somebody was actually talking about "giving up on the group"??

Ano, sore wa, eigo de hana***, kudasai?

Simple translation:
"Threat" to the group?...YOU HAVE FREAKIN' *GOT* TO BE -KIDDING-!!! ;)

You say that now, wait till it takes 30 minutes for your newsreader
to killfile all the spam for a day.

Yeah, I do say it now, for, among other reasons that nimbly spring to mind...IT'S ONE, UNO, POSTER, AND HE'S NOT EVEN -BOTHERING- TO ATTACK OUR GROUP ANYMORE!
It's just random casual drive-by x-post fallout, and the slow trickle of non-career feeders will peter itself out. LIKE IT ALWAYS DOES.

(Now, you want an *actual* threat?--How about something that specifically TARGETS r.a.a.m.?
Seems to me we just had one already. Lasted about twenty minutes.) :/

(more detailed translations on request, along with a lot of embarrassing jokes for those who remember the days of career trolls, dial-up and AOL)

I've still got one of Joel Furr's "Green Card Lawyers: Spamming
the Globe" T-shirts that I bought when Canter and Seigel first
showed up. I was around before spam, and when trolls still
avoided light...

And I was around when even smart groups thought they were "amusing", and fed them just for the heckling value. Then they got really dull.
Think it was when either the 90's trolls stayed in their little stoned haze (note Rob's particular area of posting interest, and Gaza's writing style), and the lil' new-kids wanting to live up to the "legends" just didn't have it.
Like the hippie movement, the Trolling movement died out from weed and moss. ;)

And there are now newsgroups that were flourishing then but have
sunk into a morass of these trolls, so, yeah, there is a threat.

Yeah, but the trend mostly from groups that are either
A) inactive (eg. cancelled series)^1
B) total, TOTAL noobs who feed anyone, and/or (yummy-yummy, say the trolls) wag their finger and say "Now, now, you can't say that!--Play nice!"
or combination-thereof:
C) didn't know how to ostracize any "colonizing" lost-lurkers that wanted to invite all his buddies over.

RAAM?: Zero. For. Three.
Any questions, raise your hands, and raise 'em up high. Didn't think so.

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1- The week MST3K was cancelled on cable, r.a.mst3k.misc faced an onslaught of 90's career-trolls saying--almost flat-out in some posts--"Okay, your show's been cancelled, time to turn this group into a dying troll-hangout!"
Thing is, the active conversational group ethic was a little stronger than the dopey all-groups-are-the-same trolls counted on, and short story, we made 'em cry. AND leave from inactivity and frustration.

The threat of irrelevancy due to neglect and apathy. The threat
of "ah, it's too much trouble to wade through the thousands of
spam/troll/crap posts just for the one or two posters I want to read."

The interest when an actual topic is posted, thereby downstaging Generic Bush/Politics/Etc. crap so far into the wings, it's practically invisible. And soon is.

Derek Janssen (don't mess, pal, I've been on Usenet as long as you, only I've been using my notes and microscope)
ejanss@xxxxxxxxxxx
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