🚀 go-pugleaf

"Howard Goldstein" <hgoldste@mpcs.com> wrote in message
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> On Fri, 15 Feb 2002 09:43:32 -0500, Ken <krp@atlantic.net> wrote:
>  :
>  :  "Howard Goldstein" <hgoldste@mpcs.com> wrote in message
>  :  news:1013705971.73100@news.queue.to...
>  : > On Thu, 14 Feb 2002 16:01:50 GMT, Richard Morrison
<chooch@casagrande.com>
>  :  wrote:
>  : >  :  Unfortunately, the best advice I can give for dealing with these
jerks
>  : >  :  is to ignore them.  If your newsreader has a filter, use it,
otherwise
>  : >  :  ignore their posts and _don't_ let yourself get drawn into
replying to
>  : >  :  them.  Things will eventually calm down and normal posters can
resume.
>  : >  :  It's frustrating, but it works.
>  : >
>  : > Can't say that often enough.  If folks would ignore the trolls >and<
>  : > shun those who feed them the trolls will leave.  The strategy
*always*
>  : > works, and it's much easier than setting up whitelists and talking
new
>  : > groups through our config process.
>  :
>  :  It is not too late for us to develop one. And I can say this that IF
we did,
>  :  several of the M2N gateways HAVE promised to stop the BS. All we need
to do
>  :  is get a local sys admin to sponsor the creation  of it.
>
> Someone who's listed in the INN config files for newgroupping and
> rmgrouping in fl is what's needed, and you're talking to one.  But I'm
> not going to create anything without a charter.  Plus it won't stop
> all the BS (that's the fault of the participants), only the
> mail2news-originated floods.  The UDP only goes so far.
>
>
>  : I can ask mine if
>  :  they will step into the fray. But given the harassment that they are
already
>  :  getting... They may not be real eager.
>
> It's probably for the best as it could needlessly attract contention.
> If they're in Fla though I'd be happy to hook them up with a more direct
> feed.

They are in Clearwater and are a primary feed, I think.