Re: [OFFTOPIC] Plonk (wss: Meta: behavior on list)

From	Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside <debian@polynamaude.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: [OFFTOPIC] Plonk (wss: Meta: behavior on list)
Date	2021-08-14 21:50 +0200
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On 2021-08-14 2:35 p.m., Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 14, 2021 at 01:27:43PM -0500, John Hasler wrote:
>> Charlie Gibbs writes: 
>>> Some people will respond by switching to a different e-mail address in
>>> order to work around the killfiles they know they're now in.
>>
>> Fortunately Gnus can filter on things such as substrings of message IDs
>> and other identifying header features that the trolls are unaware of the
>> existence of.
> 
> Depends on how dedicated the troll is.  There's a person on the help-bash
> mailing list who has been trolling us under *multiple* fake identities
> since the beginning of the year.  They change their email address, their
> name (including apparent gender), and even their MUA on a regular basis
> in order to try to sneak in a few more of their questions.
> 
> I've got two killfile entries for this person, but they only work on
> the troll's past patterns, and there's no guarantee I'll catch their
> future messages this way.  This means I have to be continually on guard,
> and treat any newcomer with suspicion.
> 
> Some people just suck.
> 
Some people make more effort to be useless in society than to contribute
in something profitable for all of us. The main problem is that those
person often think they are so great...

Luckily, I've learned one expression from you and it was *killlist*
Just reminded me that it's often better to use this with some user of
this list.
-- 
Polyna-Maude R.-Summerside
-Be smart, Be wise, Support opensource development

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Re: [OFFTOPIC] Plonk (wss: Meta: behavior on list) Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@surfnaked.ca> - 2021-08-14 19:50 +0200
  Re: [OFFTOPIC] Plonk (wss: Meta: behavior on list) John Hasler <john@sugarbit.com> - 2021-08-14 20:30 +0200
    Re: [OFFTOPIC] Plonk (wss: Meta: behavior on list) Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-08-14 20:40 +0200
      Re: [OFFTOPIC] Plonk (wss: Meta: behavior on list) Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside <debian@polynamaude.com> - 2021-08-14 21:50 +0200

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