Troll Feeding

May 29, 2006 3 Replies

Hello, All!



I sympathize with Ed Rasimus' response to the recent ignorant shouting troll but, as it has been said many times before, "Don't Feed the Trolls!" Absolutely *any* reply seems to encourage them.



James Silverton Potomac, Maryland, USA



"James Silverton" skrev i meddelandet news: snipped-for-privacy@comcast.com...

I don´t know about this one. It just slithers out, now and again, always with the CapsLock glued in the "down" position (an ill-advisedly applied chewinggum perhaps?), yaketiyaks, then it slithers back under its bridge. Happens about once every other month or so. Different e-mail adresses, but the style is soooo recognizable. Apart form that I tend to agree. I do like to shout at spammers now and again, though.

Cheers

Nils Gustaf

"Ed Rasimus" skrev i meddelandet news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com...

After sifting through tons of spam and trolls and kooks and things that go bump in the night, sometimes ya have to yell out, Enough already! or words to that effect. This object is obviously the same that has been here twice before - I wonders if that phone number is in fact to somebody it wishes to annoy? Hoping somebody will give the number a call and yell at the responder? It never answers any posts, apparently. I don´t remember if that makes it a troll or a kook - apparently there are operational definitions - somebody would know about that.

Come to think of it - what happened to that Vincent Vega fellow? Anybody found out who he really was? Anyone bothered? Sounded a lot like the uranium committee, to my mind ...

Cheers

Nils Gustaf

You've got it, Nils. This is what's known on Usenet as a "joe job" (long story behind that name) and is part of a campaign of harassment directed against a woman in Hendersonville, NC by her ex-boyfriend. Alas, the story is deeper and far more sordid than that:

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