From: noreply@dirge.harmsk.com   
      
   for three decades and counting, all active newsgroups have been occupied by   
   the usenet troll farm (ever since "eternal september" opened the floodgates   
   in the mid-1990s) . . . fortunately, most newsreaders (dialog, tbird, etc.)   
   can use "ignore" flag [i] on sub-threads without ignoring the entire thread,   
   and scoring can be used on overview(xover) and non-overview message headers   
   with simple rules applied globally to all newsgroups (e.g. to demote/delete   
   cross-posted articles), and more specific rules custom-tailored for popular   
   newsgroups/hierarchies ... which can turn any active newsgroup into a ghost   
   town if your scoring rules simply delete offenders instead of demoting them,   
   as signal-to-noise ratios in popular newsgroups probably exceed hundreds to   
   one, and surely thousands to zero in forums involving politics and religion   
   which are swamped entirely by troll farm rhetoric, narrative and propaganda   
      
   but don't let that dissuade anyone serious about exercising free expression   
   from contributing their plain text articles anyway, especially since usenet   
   lurkers outnumber contributors by a wide margin and reliable usenet servers   
   typically retain their "spool" of articles for at least a year, some longer,   
   so that your lurking audience (silent majority of newsgroup subscribers and   
   visitors) might discover, download and perhaps read, whatever you've posted   
   before it, too, expires from whatever server(s) they may be connecting with   
   (and articles can be reposted, improved, edited, consolidated, posted again)   
      
   every usenet "faq" has advised newsgroup contributors to ignore trolls, and   
   to avoid responding to obvious trolls, and learn to spot troll conversation   
   or "trollversation" (/trol-ver-sa'shen/) that becomes apparent in newsgroup   
   threads that attract their sock puppets into feigning newsgroup discussions   
   intended solely to discourage substantive dialog from occurring under their   
   "big brother is watching you" watch; so be careful, it's a jungle out there   
      
   --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)