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New Type of Troll Activity
There is a new type of troll attack on rec.photo.digital as well as traditional troll behavior. A troll is posting crude forged insults, mostly of a sexual nature. That is traditional troll behavior. Another more clever form of troll activity is underway. A troll is using the names of rec.photo.digital posters and is posting reasonable on-topic newbie questions in various newsgroups, such as, in rec.crafts.winemaking, a question about how to start making one's own wine. However, the follow-ups are being set to rec.photo.digital, where they are completely off-topic. The apparent objective is to cause rec.photo.digital to be swamped with off-topic traffic that is not meant to be off-topic. The best approach is to ignore any off-topic responses (or to go back to the newsgroup in which the posts were on-topic). - - Bob McClenon |
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Robert McClenon wrote:
There is a new type of troll attack on rec.photo.digital as well as traditional troll behavior. A troll is posting crude forged insults, mostly of a sexual nature. That is traditional troll behavior. Another more clever form of troll activity is underway. A troll is using the names of rec.photo.digital posters and is posting reasonable on-topic newbie questions in various newsgroups, such as, in rec.crafts.winemaking, a question about how to start making one's own wine. However, the follow-ups are being set to rec.photo.digital, where they are completely off-topic. The apparent objective is to cause rec.photo.digital to be swamped with off-topic traffic that is not meant to be off-topic. The best approach is to ignore any off-topic responses (or to go back to the newsgroup in which the posts were on-topic). - - Bob McClenon The best approach is for Google (all the messages I have seen come from there) to find this poster and terminate them with extreme prejudice. With any luck the poster will live in a state that charges up to $10,000 for each such spam post! -- Ron Hunter |
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"Robert McClenon" wrote in message ... There is a new type of troll attack on rec.photo.digital as well as traditional troll behavior. A troll is posting crude forged insults, What is your specialised subject: the bloody obvious? |
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On Mon, 7 Feb 2005 08:24:23 -0000, "Des Perado" wrote:
"Robert McClenon" wrote in message .. . There is a new type of troll attack on rec.photo.digital as well as traditional troll behavior. A troll is posting crude forged insults, What is your specialised subject: the bloody obvious? The ordinary crude insults are the bloody obvious. The follow-up forgery is the unobvious. - - Bob McClenon |
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