"Terry" wrote in message
nk.net...
I think I might have an idea that will be good for all in this
newsgroup as it applies to MXSMANIC and other trolls as well.

For those that want to respond to what they think is a legitimate
question and might be valuable to the newsgroup, please post your
reply for all to read and learn.

That's generally reasonable for the first itteration of a question...

For those that think the question is stupid, ie: comes from the lack
of experience, confrontational, argumentative or just plain silly,
that most of us in this newsgroup would not care to read your response
but YOU feel you MUST respond anyway please do so. HOWEVER please
reply to sender only and not the newsgroup.

This is not only impractical, but IMHO also a really bad idea when you
believe that you are responding to a troll.

A much better system has been developed in other newsgroups. For example,
there was (reportedly) a long running flame war in rec.aviation.homebuilt
regarding a publisher named James Campbell, also referred to as Captain
Zoom. The controversy preceeded by reading of the newsgroup by a *long*
period of time, and there are occasional "flare ups" to this day.
Therefore, a system was devised--and generally remains implemented--that all
posts referencing same shall have a series of at least three Z's in the
subject line, although most posters seem to include six or eight at the end
of the subject line as follows: ZZZZZZZZ

Therefore, it might make sense for those who feel the need to respond; but
feel that the prior post was silly, argumentative, or simply trolling; to
add an identifier to the end of the subject line. Whereas this is not a
cooking or dining forum, I suggest: MMMMMMM

If the group cares to implement such a system in this forum, the next
question would be whether to use the same designator for all presumed
trolls, such as TTTTTTTT, or to assign individually and limit any such
treatment to a most select few--which I would recommend.

That way others can ignore that branch of the thread, or not, either
automatically or based on their own assessment of the contributor's
credibility in such matters....

For the rest of US that have had enough of this person and a few other
trolls, lets all get together and send them 10 emails each. Lets fill
up their mail boxes with 100's of replies. Simple thing to do really.
Start your word processor, type in whatever you want and save the
file. Each time you see a silly posting by the Troll just hit "reply
to sender only", open your word file, copy and paste to email and send
over and over until your fingers get tired!

This is a REALLY bad idea! Flooding and spamming are both forms of abuse,
and in a practical sense will do little more than fill up a mailbox which
may have been set up for the purpose.