On 18 Feb 2006 16:56:06 -0800, "Altum" wrote:

OT, regarding Ja b riol in the ' AråchñÕe¤ thread ', these persons are
fully capable, willing and planning to bring significant havoc to rafm.
Rec.ponds is a wreck and alt.aquaria is currently being overwhelmed. If
nothing changes, we will be their next target, and our options are
limited. I don't know about you, but I'm rather fond of rafm and have
enjoyed many interesting discussions here. When I can repeat
conversations to friends, from the newsgroup, then I know the group is
part of my life (social, entertainment and academic too).

If they choose to snow us under 100s of robo-generated posts, they will
regardless. If they want to intimidate me, then they now have a very big
target with over 10,000 mostly boring posts from which to gather
information from (they'll know more about my tanks than I'll remember
;~). fwiw, I'll take your advice if the exchange is fruitless, but
regardless of the outcome, it was worth asking them to stop... the cause
justifies the effort, eh?

One thing these trolls sometimes do is post under a regular poster's
name and email address. We've already seen it happen a couple of times
If someone suddenly writes something out of character, check whether
it's from their regular news server (you can find that in the header)
or ask before you assume they've "gone off the deep end."

Good luck with that water, NetMax.

Ask whom?

-- Mr Gardener