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Posted by Hop-Frog on 09/26/83 11:55
DaffyDuck <daffyduck@spammersdie.mac.dot.com> wrote in
news:2006081308194116807-daffyduck@spammersdiemacdotcom:
> On 2006-08-13 06:15:27 -0700, "Hop-Frog" <Hop-Frog@asu.edu.spamfree>
> said:
>
>> For those with an interest in civil conversation and sufficient
>> intellect *not* to have to resort to profanity at every turn: setting
>> a Follow-Up To: header is good netiquette when the discussion is
>> cross-posted to a half-dozen newsgroups and only germaine to one.
>> Only trolls cross-post to more than two or three groups.
>
> Which is why trolls get plonked - why bother replying to him?
Because netiquette is such an endangered species these days that I feared
some lurker might conclude that setting Follow-Up To: was frowned upon. I
reply to the troll not to feed him, but to (try to) educate the masses, and
hopefully raise the level of discourse slightly.
Of course, it may be the equivalent of trying to stop a glacier with a
battery-powered hair dryer.
--
I am simply Hop-Frog, the jester--and this is my last jest.
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