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   Angler to All   
   Moral Dilemma   
   29 Aug 24 15:13:53   
   
   XPost: news.groups, alt.2600.hackers   
   From: jolly@fisher.men   
      
   A long time ago some really nasty trolls were verbally abusing me in the   
   newsgroups. I figured right quick that any response would only lead to more   
   abuse so I stopped posting to the groups and I went my merry way.   
      
   But before I left I set up a GPT-style bot to autopost to the groups each time   
   they reply to my bot posts. After nearly two years later I opened the groups   
   in a news reader to discover that the same trolls had been responding to the   
   bot posts all that    
   time. They were still going at it with their abuse of the bot. The retards are   
   oblivious.   
      
   I have a moral dilemma. I feel a bit guilty, knowing that my bot has wasted   
   what probably amounts to dozens of hours of their pathetic lives reading and   
   responding to my bot posts.   
      
   Should I pull the plug on the bot?   
      
   Or should I set the bot to use more aggressive phrases and get popcorn?   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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