What do you mean by trolls may end up biting off more than they can
chew. I don't see how. They will never stop and only get worse. Sorry, I
am rambling again...Pete
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hi pete - that's what we use to do at the prostate cancer newsgroup too
- leave them alone.  and i said the same thing i did here.  have fun
with them.  and we have.  it's not one, but a group effort and we have a
blast with these idiots.  oh, they can try to make posts back, but when
you have everyone down on them kicking the crap out of them, it's so
much fun.  you are pissed off because you have cancer,  you are peeing
on yourself, impotent, worried about the recurrence of the cancer,
depressed and mad as hell - all of the same time - so here's a post that
comes into the newsgroup to play - so to speak.  

for example --------

one of the posters has a post here.  it is  $208 Million Magazine
Project
www.israel-fagbemi.com

two months ago, he was advertising about sending him 5.00 dollars are
making 80,000.

well, he tried to get into a pissing contest and actually started to try
to defend himself   the more he tried, the more fun we had.  

some of the members of our group are in the "legal area" shall we say
and posted all his crimes, the public court records,  the action taken
against him and where he was living while in the u.s.   he is operating
in canada now.   the more he posted the more we dug into his backyard.
seems like trolls don't like you knowing what server they are on,  what
their address and phone are, what country they are living in. etc.

well, anyway, this troll got so, stupid, said to call him and tell him
what we were saying so he could sue us.   one poster said the troll to
call him and posted his phone number.   it was to a certain office at
the law enforcement where he works.  the troll never called and stop
posting.

it takes our mind off of our problems and gives us something to do - if
that makes sense.

but some of the posters just do mass postings and never respond.  we
still use them at target boards.  if you try it,  you can have a blast.

i've seen trolls try to fill the newsgroup band space, with stupid
messages just to eat up the bandwidth.   in this particular case, the
troll was using a webtv.  not too cool because they are very limited on
what they can do.  they can't do remailing so, that one was an easy one.
the people reclaimed their newsgroup again.

my prediction of the prostatitis newsgroup is that he is going to get
tired of talking to himself in the mirror and leave.  then the newsgroup
will continue again.

men will still have prostatitis and they will come there for support and
to share information - minus fatty mawsom.  

or..........one of those posters that fatty mawsom gets into with just
might have the power to pull his plug.  it's a chance that trolls take.  

i look at it like a double edge sword.   it cuts both ways.  :))

~ curtis

knowledge is power - growing old is mandatory - growing wise is optional    
"Many more men die with prostate cancer than of it. Growing old is
invariably fatal. Prostate cancer is only sometimes so."
http://community.webtv.net/PALMER_ENT/doc