"Larry Blanchard" wrote in message
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Altum wrote:

OK, I joined. But it seems to me we're giving in to the trolls (aka
Roy) a little too easily. I've managed to filter out most of the
offensive posts so I'll continue to check this group from time to time.


This all seems like deja vu to me, first trolls invade a news group, then a
group is started on a site off Usenet.
What's to stop what I've seen in other Usenet groups that have done this,
next trolls invade the group using, free signup email accounts, changing
accounts when they get discovered or mail bombing the group so moderation is
impossible?

Also using Usenet you don't have to use a real email address to post,
whereas Google group you have to have a email address, what's to stop
someone sitting in there and harvesting all the email addresses.

Why don't we just hop straight to the last stage that's happened on other
groups, a proportion of the trolls get kicked off what ever studies their
doing for wasting so much time on Usenet and end up working at Burger King
or MacDonalds, (or if a miracle occurs actually finish their studies) the
unemployed lot get their pc's reclaimed by the repo man and kicked out of
libraries and finally the last lot get bored and decide to move on to
another group.

Chris Watts