I'd like to remind everyone to not respond
to the trolls and those with OCD who are
compelled by their disorder to fight here
in this newsgroup. They post inflamatory and
deceitful posts to suck you/us into cyclical
pissing matches which accomplish nothing.
They are compelled by their OCD to do so.
They can't help themselves. Even when you respond
to set the record straight you lose because
they are here only for the fight and you are
obliging them. Scratching their itch as it were.

Kill-file them. Ignore them. Plonk them. They
wither on the vine and become impotent when
ignored.

I think Froggy said it best when he answered
the call for peaceful resistance and the newsgroup
did win the peace.

Froggy wrote:

"OK but it needs a very determined effort by everybody not to
reply to *any* post from the OCDs - even to correct a plain
lie or one of conlon's twists - and that's not going to be
easy because they will keep coming in the hope of a reaction,
and they'll drop in seemingly on-topic questions and responses
to keep themselves alive as well as naive-newbie-curious-about
-the-war posts from their sock-puppets to keep the pot boiling.

The answer, I think, is to freeze them out altogether and kill-
filter every nick change as it appears.  That's not going to be
easy for good-hearted folk who always hope for the best or are
willing to overlook the nasty stuff and may be taken in by a
disingenuous on-topic post or one that seems to signal a change
of behavior - I'm afraid that the two or three OCDs we have here
are too far gone to be able to do that.

Still, I'm willing to give it a go and join with others in not
responding to them.  It will take a long time for them to die
of hunger and we can expect plenty of taunts and insults at the
outset, but let's see what happens."

Cheers hic"