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In article <35E64C75.C5A02411@clark.net>, klaatu@clark.net wrote:
>Mike Lastort wrote:
 
>> I've done that, and now all I see are the people who take Tracey's troll
>> bait. If everyone would *plonk* him and ignore any follow-ups, 75% of this 
>> group's garbage would simply go away.
>
>But we'd miss out on all of the worthy trolls! 

Worthy trolls? Now *THAT'S* an oxymoron.

>> Didn't someone post something about a troll-free month a while ago? What
>> happened to that initiative?
>
>Well, basically the best policies are to let the more-lame of the trolls
>starve and wither away. But occasionally some trolls simply must be hammered
>into the point of either submission or automation. Joe the Troll was one such,
>and "Travid" is another. If you come back with something sensible, he just
>goes away or comes-back with a peurile one-liner, and if you just toss
>one-liners at him and he floods the group with copyrighted AP feed. I prefer
>to try to either boggle the bad perl-script and make a live human type back,
>or to coax the live human into passable rhetoric, if not acceptable logic or
>political centrism.

Well, I doubt that sending follow-up messages to "Travid" will ever change 
his/her/its mind about anything. I don't really recall Joe the Troll.

>> BTW, Klaatu, been to any Despondent Astronaut shows lately?
>
>Nah. I don't get out much and bars cost too much anyway. And there's never any
>parking. Plus that damned fake fog does things to my sinuses.

Fake fog? I thought that was smoke coming off Doctor Doom's guitar. :)

Mike Lastort
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