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Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 07:46:28 +1000
Subject: Re: Don't feed the troll...
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On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 6:15 AM, Guy Scree <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:
> I recommend that all participants in this thread, especially Alex and
> Anton, research the term "Pathological Altruism"

I don't intend to buy a book about it, but based on flipping through a
few Google results and snippets, I'm thinking that this is the
"Paladin fault" that I know from Dungeons & Dragons. :)

ChrisA