news:7avcp3lpr3o80vljdgk0j9jonv36a0ivjq@4ax.com:
> On 22 Jan 2008 17:18:02 -0600, +Grant <+Grant@grant.grant> employed an
> infinite number of monkeys on an infinite number of typewriter to say:
>
>>In article <fn5naf$e73$1@aioe.org>, floppy <floppy@flop.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Suggestion to all: learn to use your newsreader's filtering
>>> capabilities, and:
>>>
>>> (1) filter out all the trolls.
>>> (2) do NOT reply to their posts
>>> (3) if you must reply, do not quote any of their text, since that
>>> won't be filtered.
>>>
>>> I have no idea what the most active trolls are saying, since I
>>> never see their posts. And: how much more pleasant my usenet
>>> experience has become as a result.
>>>
>>> Ping VV re legality: I hate to say it, but we probably can't be too
>>> sure about the legality of some of the material here, as ridiculous
>>> as that sounds. Remember that in some places just about anything can
>>> be construed to be cp these days. Anything where genitals are
>>> visible is risky, or that seems at all "lewd" even if not nude. You
>>> just can't trust puritanical courts or obsessed lawmakers in this,
>>> the age of hysteria.
>>>
>>> Encrypt everything with a reliable open source encryption program.
>>> Preferably encrypt your whole operating system if using Windows.
>>>
>>>
>>
>>I agree with everything you said.
>>
>>Its stupidly bad tactics to deliberately inflame your enemies more
>>than you absolutely have to. "Tedn'Alice" did that a whole lot and did
>>much more to damage the BL society that I don't want to say in public.
>>I don't want to give enemies ideas if they don't have them. I told him
>>I didn't like his and Forsooths troll-baiting and why.
>>It's bad strategy and dangerous to underestimate your enemy.
>>usenetters can do a lot to cause problems even legal ones for posters.
>>Trolls have done this and more I don't want to say in public. Its
>>stupid self-destructive to beg them to do more.
>>
>>Personal stuff next.
>>I have enough of a problem reconciling the "immorality" of being a BL
>>with my religion. I don't want to compound that by acting like a troll
>>myself. If we can't be better than them in our sexuality which we
>>can't help at least we can be better human beings than they are and
>>not piss them off just for the perverse pleasure of it. They have to
>>do it for psychological reasons but *we* don't have to and so we
>>shouldn't.
>
> If you think I'm a troll, you're mistaken. Nothing could be further
> from the truth. The fact is that I was away from Usenet for about
> three years. I didn't have the time to devote to this diversion and I
> just went on about my RL business. Now, I have some small amount of
> time to spare, so I have returned.
>
> My complaint is simple. This is not a binaries group nor is it a boy
> lovers group. There are already groups long established for those
> things, so I suggest you move on to them with your vices, no matter
> how I may feel about them.
In fact I don't mind neither :)
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