A Modest Proposal. [That has nothing to do with eating the Irish]

I will second that motion! In reality I am not proud of the side of me that he brought out. Unfortunately my aggressive side instinctually pops out when I am attacked. I am reminded me of the adage

"Who is the bigger fool, the fool, or the man that argues with one?"

There is another time honored tradition that goes way back in the Usenet. It is called *PLONK*.

Definition:

Mike

On 20 Feb 2004 19:11:24 -0800, snipped-for-privacy@mailandnews.com (Cameron Lewis) cast caution to the wind and posted:

It's been the case when I speak people shutup and listen. At least I stink up the joint for free since I still give a poop. You are free to shop at the car dealership with fixed sticker prices because you can't slug it out with the sales manager quoting dealer invoice.

Jim

While intrepidly exploring rec.food.drink.tea, Space Cowboy rolled initiative and posted the following:

And yet, when you write, they tell you you're full of yourself.

If it weren't for everyone answering this ninny, I wouldn't know he was posting. I kill-filed him two years ago.

That's the reason killfiles are useless. You can read me now or read me later. When Dejavu archived Usenet the percentage of replies to my posts were 99%. At one point in time I was in the top 100 with number of posts and replies. Usually when people killfile me they usually make it a public lynching. Why did you wait two years? I don't hide behind bogus email accounts like many embarrassed New Yorkers who stiff the doorman at Christmas.

Jim

While intrepidly exploring rec.food.drink.tea, Space Cowboy rolled initiative and posted the following:

Surprisingly, I think we can both agree that the effectiveness of a killfile rests on the software used, the knowledge of the user, and the thoroughness of a scoring file.

Not really. If I wanted to block out all of your posts or any responses, I can set my newsreader to do so.

Which actually proves nothing about the quality or content of your posts.

The statement preceeding the question is unprovable, unless you can specify exactly how many people have you killfiled and how many of those people announced said "plonking".

Which is an obvious and petty ad hominem attack, and proves nothing.

Because it wasn't important enough to make an announcement, and maybe I'm smarter than most of your opponents who keep taking the bait. Why should I 'publically lynch' someone who is a harmless nitwit? I mentioned it this time only because people seemed to think they had to read your posts. I feel sorry for anyone who feels they have to publically lynch you, though. Obviously they have too much time on their hands. But if it would make you feel important to call you names (why is it trolls measure their importance that way?), I will. I'm a Buddhist, and I like to make people happy as long as doing so won't damage my own karma.

Actually, that was a joke. Not the Buddhist part- the part about communicating with you.

Good for you. I've been stalked on the internet and in real life, however. I'd rather not end up giving my email address to my stalker. Is that ok by you? Especially since I don't have a doorman.

Thanks for the hint, Derek. I will increase my filter level so I won't even have to read people who answer this person.

While intrepidly exploring rec.food.drink.tea, Tea rolled initiative and posted the following:

You're welcome for the idea. The trick is to find something in the message ID that is consistent across all posts so will show up in any responses.