----- Original Message ----- From: "Julia Thompson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2002 9:06 AM Subject: Re: An idea
> "Baardwijk, J. van DTO/SLWPD/RZO/BOZO" wrote: > > > > > -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- > > > Van: Julia Thompson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > Verzonden: donderdag 30 mei 2002 6:31 > > > Aan: Brin-L > > > Onderwerp: An idea > > > > > If someone's behavior on-list is bothering you, maybe you should try to > > > send a polite request for the person to change their behavior. > > > > Been there, done that. Did not work. > > > > I have asked him politely to stop trolling -- he did not listen. I have > > *told* him to stop trolling -- he did not listen. He once said he would stop > > trolling if a listowner would tell him to; I told him as a listowner to stop > > trolling, but he still did not listen. > > I haven't read everything in my queue yet, but this is the second > instance of someone saying "I told Mark not to troll, and he's still > trolling" that I've read this morning. > > "Trolling" is pretty vague. "Posting gibberish" or "posting nonsense" > is vague. > > I made two specific requests of him: no messages over 10K (this > prompted by the 30K+ posting of a bunch of his posts from awhile back) > and no HTML. I have not seen him post anything over 10K since that > request, and I have not seen any HTML from him since I made that > request. > > If you make more specific requests, that might help. > > If *I* made more specific requests, maybe that would help, but unless > someone else works out the general gist of the request, I don't have > time to do that right now. > > Anyone want to feed me carefully-worded specific requests off-list? > > Julia > What Mark is doing isnt really Trolling anyway. Real trolls post specific types of posts to piss off certain individuals or groups. Mark hasnt really done anything like that. Very few of his posts are specificly irritating. Now USENET has real trolls. xponent Troll Killer Maru rob
