🚀 go-pugleaf

On Sat, 27 Nov 2004 19:56:49 GMT, hona ponape <a@b.c> wrote:

> Death <look@my.reply-to.address>  :
>>On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 19:13:22 +0800, Bateau <Gamera@work.stomping.aza>
>>wrote:
>>
>>> bk039@ncf.ca (Raymond Martineau) wrote:
>>> >Don't feed the trolls.  In case you didn't notice, he's attempting to flood
>>> >can.sun-stroke with replies from less experienced users.  
>>> 
>>> So what?
>>
>>Would you be so quick to dismiss it if it were one of the newsgroups
>>_you_ regularly read that were the subject of such an attack, and of
>>hundreds posts a day, only a few of them were actually on the subject
>>of the group?
>>
>I'm quick to dismiss it because ALL newsgroups are flooded with this trash.
>You need to loosen up a little and try to have a little fun with it.
>Crying about it has never stopped them from posting. (Neither has ignoring
>them)

Well, the difference here is that the Usenet clown is trying to keep score
- counting the number of replies in addition to flooding diffferent
newsgroups.   Since he isn't a troll, he isn't claiming the -50 penalty for
each primary topic that he's creating.  Thus, he's just trying a spamming
run, plain and simple.  Best to prevent whatever group he decides to flood
next.

I seen a vary similar attack occurr on a popular newsgroup:
rec.games.roguelike.nethack.  That was simply one person doing multiple
postings, but could be avoided by doing multiple instant-killfiles.  In
this case, it's harder to killfile because there isn't any consistant means
to fileter the posts.

(But yeah, he's using a very generic troll post.  Appearently,  he ended up
with simple "read the FAQ" rather than the expected discord for one
posting.)