Dealing With Trolls

[franklin28@h] easy procmail recipe help
[Alan Connor ] > Re: easy procmail recipe help
[Sam ] > XXXXXXX
[Timo Salmi ] > XXXXXXX
[Sam ] > XXXXXXX

See? Whenever a known troll posts on a newsgroup,
my newsfilter (procmail) replaces the Subject with
XXXXXXX, removes the body, and deletes any extraneous
headers.

The same for anyone who feeds the troll, as above.

I find it hard to believe that Timo Salmi would
stoop to even reading one of "Sam's" posts. Probably
another forgery. "Sam" forges people's names all
the time.

And spends most of his time talking to his own
sockpuppets. Naturally.

AC

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FAQ: Canonical list of questions Beavis refuses to answer (V1.20) (was Re: Dealing With Troll

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Beavis writes:

> [franklin28@h] easy procmail recipe help
> [Alan Connor ] > Re: easy procmail recipe help
> [Sam ] > XXXXXXX
> [Timo Salmi ] > XXXXXXX
> [Sam ] > XXXXXXX
>
> See? Whenever a known troll posts on a newsgroup,
> my newsfilter (procmail) replaces the Subject with
> XXXXXXX, removes the body, and deletes any extraneous
> headers.

Hi, Beavis, would you mind answering question #9, below?

Thanks!

> The same for anyone who feeds the troll, as above.
>
> I find it hard to believe that Timo Salmi would
> stoop to even reading one of "Sam's" posts. Probably
> another forgery. "Sam" forges people's names all
> the time.

While you're at it, Beavis, also try to come up with the answer to #5.

FAQ: Canonical list of questions Beavis refuses to answer (V1.20)

This is a canonical list of questions that Beavis never answers. This FAQ is
posted on a semi-regular schedule, as circumstances warrant.

For more information on Beavis, see:

http://angel.1jh.com/nanae/kooks/alanconnor.shtml

Although Beavis has been posting for a long time, he always remains silent
on the subjects enumerated below. His response, if any, usually consists of
replying to the parent post with a loud proclamation that his Usenet-reading
software runs a magical filter that automatically identifies anyone who's
making fun of him, and hides those offensive posts. For more information
see question #9 below.

============================================================ ================

1) If spammers avoid forging real E-mail addresses on spam, then where do
all these bounces everyone reports getting (for spam with their return
address was forged onto) come from?

2) If your Challenge-Response filter is so great, why do you still munge
when posting to Usenet?

3) Do you still believe that rsh is the best solution for remote access?
(http://tinyurl.com/5qqb6)

4) What is your evidence that everyone who disagrees with you, and thinks
that you're a moron, is a spammer?

5) How many different individuals do you believe really post to
comp.mail.misc? What is the evidence for your paranoid belief that everyone,
except you, who posts here is some unknown arch-nemesis of yours?

6) How many times, or how often, do you believe is necessary to announce
that you do not read someone's posts? What is your reason for making these
regularly-scheduled proclamations? Who do you believe is so interested in
keeping track of your Usenet-reading habits?

7) When was the last time you saw Bigfoot (http://tinyurl.com/23r3f)?

8) If your C-R system employs a spam filter so that it won't challenge spam,
then why does any of the mail that passes the filter, and is thusly presumed
not to be spam, need to be challenged?

9) You claim that the software you use to read Usenet magically identifies
any post that makes fun of you. In http://tinyurl.com/3swes you explain
that "What I get in my newsreader is a mock post with fake headers and no
body, except for the first parts of the Subject and From headers."

Since your headers indicate that you use slrn and, as far as anyone knows,
the stock slrn doesn't work that way, is this interesting patch to slrn
available for download anywhere?

10) You regularly post alleged logs of your procmail recipe autodeleting a
bunch of irrelevant mail that you've received. Why, and who exactly do you
believe is interested in your mail logs?

11) How exactly do you "enforce" an "order" to stay out of your mailbox,
supposedly (http://tinyurl.com/cs8jt)? Since you issue this "order" about
every week, or so, apparently nobody wants to follow it. What are you going
to do about it?

12) What's with your fascination with shit? (also http://tinyurl.com/cs8jt)?



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Re: Dealing With Trolls

Alan Connor wrote:
> [franklin28@h] easy procmail recipe help
> [Alan Connor ] > Re: easy procmail recipe help
> [Sam ] > XXXXXXX
> [Timo Salmi ] > XXXXXXX
> [Sam ] > XXXXXXX
>
> See? Whenever a known troll posts on a newsgroup,
> my newsfilter (procmail) replaces the Subject with
> XXXXXXX, removes the body, and deletes any extraneous
> headers.
>
> The same for anyone who feeds the troll, as above.
>
> I find it hard to believe that Timo Salmi would
> stoop to even reading one of "Sam's" posts. Probably
> another forgery. "Sam" forges people's names all
> the time.
>
> And spends most of his time talking to his own
> sockpuppets. Naturally.
>
> AC
>

And yet somehow you manage to quote all those supposed trolls verbatim
when you post your braindead paranoiac bullshit.
Does Bigfoot feed you the information or Princess Zena.?

Re: Dealing With Trolls

Alan Connor wrote:
>
> [franklin28@h] easy procmail recipe help
> [Alan Connor ] > Re: easy procmail recipe help
> [Sam ] > XXXXXXX
> [Timo Salmi ] > XXXXXXX
> [Sam ] > XXXXXXX
>
> See? Whenever a known troll posts on a newsgroup,
> my newsfilter (procmail) replaces the Subject with
> XXXXXXX, removes the body, and deletes any extraneous
> headers.

Your newsfilter seems to be broken.