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Denis McMahon wrote:

> On Sun, 11 May 2014 15:14:12 +0000, Doug Miller wrote:
>> bill <william@TechServSys.com> wrote […]:
>>> Might we adopt a policy of benign neglect towards richard, i.e:
>>> rot reply to any of his posts?
>> At least not until he apologizes, in the newsgroup, to everyone he has
>> insulted and abused.
> 
> I detect a slight flaw in this plan.
> 
> richard's posts may then be answered by people whose knowledge and
> competence is as lacking as his, and other newbies reading the group
> might take those posts as being good answers to problems similar to the
> ones richard posts.

That cannot be prevented anyway, as you are demonstrating repeatedly.  Logic 
dictates that there will always be more people who are not knowledgable and 
competent than people who are.  However, not feeding the troll – *any* 
troll – and ignoring lusers will keep the noise down.  Correcting wrong 
answers to their postings, and pointing out that some approaches are unwise, 
is still possible.  One must keep in mind that one does not need to save the 
world alone.


PointedEars
-- 
> If you get a bunch of authors […] that state the same "best practices"
> in any programming language, then you can bet who is wrong or right...
Not with javascript. Nonsense propagates like wildfire in this field.
  -- Richard Cornford, comp.lang.javascript, 2011-11-14

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richard bill <william@TechServSys.com> - 2014-05-11 07:30 -0400
  Re: richard Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2014-05-11 07:50 -0400
    Re: richard The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2014-05-11 15:14 +0100
  Re: richard Doug Miller <doug_at_milmac_dot_com@example.com> - 2014-05-11 12:16 +0000
  Re: richard richard <noreply@example.com> - 2014-05-11 10:11 -0400
    Re: richard Evan Platt <evan@theobvious.espphotography.com.invalid> - 2014-05-12 06:50 -0700
  Re: richard Doug Miller <doug_at_milmac_dot_com@example.com> - 2014-05-11 15:14 +0000
    Re: richard Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2014-05-11 16:06 +0000
      Re: richard Doug Miller <doug_at_milmac_dot_com@example.com> - 2014-05-11 21:46 +0000
        Re: richard bill <william@TechServSys.com> - 2014-05-12 07:19 -0400
          Re: richard Doug Miller <doug_at_milmac_dot_com@example.com> - 2014-05-12 13:01 +0000
            Re: richard The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2014-05-12 14:52 +0100
              Re: richard Doug Miller <doug_at_milmac_dot_com@example.com> - 2014-05-12 18:15 +0000
            Re: richard Evan Platt <evan@theobvious.espphotography.com.invalid> - 2014-05-12 07:43 -0700
              Re: richard Doug Miller <doug_at_milmac_dot_com@example.com> - 2014-05-12 18:17 +0000
      Re: richard Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-05-12 12:07 +0200
  Re: richard Angel <he1983912@gmail.com> - 2022-06-30 07:46 -0700

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