From: krypsis@optusnet.com.au   
      
   On 8/06/2011 7:38 PM, DennisMc wrote:   
   > I took a look at the various groups to which Kramer regularly posted. In   
   > every case but two, the groups died out completely after he left,   
   > leaving behind nothing other than the few trolls and trouble-makers who   
   > were hounding him. Is the reason the groups died that Kramer was no   
   > longer posting, or because the trolls were posting? Regardless, the only   
   > group still surviving is the cooking group. All the other died.   
      
   Well, SCT has died out completely, nothing surer. Sure there are some   
   posters there but, if you care to look, they seem not interested in   
   anything Thai. In fact, they seem more anti Thai than anything else.   
   Rec.scuba seems a mere shadow of its former self and Rec.knives nothing   
   more than a troll infestation. The cooking group will survive because   
   the women there give the trolls no quarter. SCV survives quite well but   
   that is mostly because most discussion in that forum is in the   
   Vietnamese language and that fact alone keeps the trolls out. Maybe SCT   
   would have survived better had it been in Thai language only but that   
   would have excluded any and all interested in Thailand who weren't Thai.   
   The Thai people caught on to the trolls really quickly and moved off   
   into their own moderated forums, usually web based. A troll poster lasts   
   mere seconds in these.   
   >   
   > Taking Felicity's suggestion, I did find that he is quite active in   
   > moderated groups catering to the same interests, along with members of   
   > the usenet groups who followed him over. A response from another member   
   > of the ThaiVisa group let me know that the moderators there have in the   
   > past actively blocked trolls who attempted to attack him there numerous   
   > times. Apparently someone named Roger Johnson tried dozens of times   
   > using different names. Probably frustrates the hell out of 'em. LOL!   
   >   
   It's quite sad to see Usenet degenerate like it has but these moronic   
   trolls seem to think only they have the right to free speech. Moderated   
   forums will be the way of the future, it seems. Free speech is a   
   wonderful concept but one of which the trolls have little understanding.   
      
   Krypsis   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)