At 04:29 PM 5/27/02, Jeroen wrote: >At 14:05 27-05-2002 -0400, Erik Reuter wrote: > >> > I dare say, though, the offending posts by Mark held no redeeming >> > social/political value. >> >>I see. We are lucky to have such an authority on redeeming social value >>in our midsts. By the way, is discussion of sex with dolphins of any >>redeeming social value? > >Your sarcasm is uncalled for, Erik -- Michael is making a valid point >here. Mark is engaging in trolling and is not contributing anything >constructive to any discussion on this list; he does not appear to be >interested in any real discussion, but only in trolling. He is even >offensive in some of his posts, and his overall behaviour is such that if >Brin-L were a Real-Life debating forum instead of an on-line one, he would >have been sent away weeks ago. > >Mark reappeared on April 15th 2002. Since then, a total of 3,224 messages >have been posted to this list, 317 of which were Mark's. That means that >9.8% of all messages since April 15th have been trolls. Now, I can accept >an occassional troll, but when almost 10% of list traffic is made up of >trolling messages by one single poster, I think it is time to put an end to it. > > From the looks of it, his trolling is getting worse by the week: > >Week Posts > 16 2 > 17 2 > 18 29 > 19 67 > 20 93 > 21 91 > 22 33 (in less than two days, so possibly >100 this week)
Those statistics would support a possibility I have been considering for a bit now: that Mark is deliberately trying to get himself thrown off the list. -- Ronn! :) God bless America, Land that I love! Stand beside her, and guide her Thru the night with a light from above. From the mountains, to the prairies, To the oceans, white with foam� God bless America! My home, sweet home. -- Irving Berlin (1888-1989)
