Boundaries between Approach/Departure and Center

A Lieberma wrote:
A Guy Called Tyketto wrote in
. net:

Yet you've responded to the same posts in all the other
newsgroups as well. I hate to defend the guy, but pot kettle black
here.

Then why didn't you heed my advice???? To feed a troll????

You know, you're getting pretty strident with this "advice". It's
getting old, and it's making the newsgroup a lot less pleasant.

Has it occurred to you that you're paying the same attention to the
alleged troll that you're urging everybody else to eschew? What's it
going to take to get YOU to stop?

If you felt the need to answer him, why not email him or followup your
response to the sim groups?

If you felt the need to criticize him for answering, why not email him
or followup your response to the net-abuse groups?

Most people already know he is a troll and are seeing the light in not
answering him. What's your excuse???

And what's YOURS? For those of us who have killfiled him, your efforts
are raising the noise level even more. I wouldn't have seen this
thread if you hadn't responded -- the original entry was hidden by the
killfile.

Personally, I've avoided responding to him directly, and try to never
even post in a thread he's participating in. By now, everybody has
pretty much made up their minds how they're going to deal with this
situation. Why not just give it a rest?

If you'd limit yourself to correcting inaccuracies and adding
clarifying follow-ups ("he's a simmer!"), it wouldn't be so bad, but
you've pretty much crossed the line yourself -- and in a much more
negative way.