Morgans wrote:
Well, I'm going to take a break from this group for a while. The signal to
noise level is so high, and the volume of junk so large, it takes too much
time and annoys me.


No need for you to bail. What you need to do is grit your teeth and filter the
troll. I notice you use Outlook Express, as I do. The very first thing you do
is when you see one of his messages go up to the top of your window and click on
Messages Block Sender. Instantly away go troubles down the drain. That takes
care of him. Your next step can be handled in a number of ways: how to rid
yourself of the threads he's polluted the group with. One would be to pick a
message in the offending thread, go to the top of the window and select Message
Ignore Thread. WHOOSH!!!!! Gone. It won't take you long to clean up the
newsgroup with just a click or two.

I've chosen to apply a different approach to step two: I use a program called
NewsProxy as an add-on to Outlook Express. It allows me to filter based on
different characteristics. One of the most valuable is the ability to filter on
cross posts. I've noted over time that most of the worst off-topic crap gets
posted via crossposting. That's not unique to this group; it made
sci.medicine.nursing damn near unreadable. Anyway, I already had a filter that
deleted any message that was crossposted to more than two groups. That cleaned
up 95% of the traffic in the nursing group, as well as talk. politics.guns and
several others. It didn't cut it for our particular problem though, so I added
a special filter just for this newsgroup that says that if a message is posted
to rec.aviation.piloting and is also posted to ANY other newsgroup, delete it.
That took care of Numbnuts (if the block sender didn't already) but more
importantly nuked the threads... since he always crossposts any thread he
starts. If he mutates, I'll just initiate the Ignore Thread option. Either
way, I've gone all day without him or his crap.

If anyone is interested in how to set up News Proxy, you can send me an email
with a phone number and I can talk you through the setup in about 5 minutes.
I'm free pretty much any day except Tuesday afternoon; don't have to work again
until next Saturday.


I'm tired of being called a netcop, among other things, and since all of you
"weenies" that are enabling this troll by responding have pushed this group
into the dumpster, as far as I am concerned.


That grated on my nerves as well. All I can say is get over it. There are
others in this group who very much agree with both of us. The others deserve
what they're getting.


I'll check back from time to time, and when he goes, I'll return.


I'd ask you to reconsider. First, don't let the ******* win. Second, you have
something to contribute here that is worth much more than the dribblings of that
little diaper smear. Third, it is very possible to rid your world of his odor,
as I've described above.

I should have nuked him long ago but found myself drawn to his postings like a
lemming to the sea. Yet the more I read, the more I'd get ****ed. The more the
enablers insisted he wasn't really a troll, the more ****ed I'd get. I'm a
nurse, I know a turd when I see one. Please don't tell me it's a rose. But I
digress. Take my advice and just nuke him instead of the group.

Nulle *******o carborundum.



--
Mortimer Schnerd, RN
mschnerdatcarolina.rr.com