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The irony is that certain usenet admins aid and abet the trolls who
started shit, and then complained about it when it got kicked back in
their faces.

Not everyone who kisses ass and pretends to be lilly white is so.
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On Thu, 2 Jul 2026 22:58:24 -0000 (UTC), Brian <brian@tc.net> wrote
in article <1126qef$ngsc$1@paganini.bofh.team>:

The irony is that certain usenet admins aid and abet

paganini.bofh.team is an excellent newsserver, i also regularly use
several other servers for read-only purposes, freenews.netfront.net, news.neodome.net, nntp.csiph.com, news.blueworldhosting.com; 40tude
dialog makes it easy to select different servers for each newsgroup,
and also makes it easy to blacklist trolls, selectively kill-filing
the chronic offenders, and automatically ignoring the rest "from *",
thus watching only the whitelisted contributors/topics/servers, etc.

i have set 40tude to automatically "move" all troll farm chatter to
the "troll" folder, and all otherwise automatically ignored headers
to the "junk" folder, which i check (the junk folder) before purges,
maybe to add another killfile entry, or more rarely a new whitelist,
then purge daily, deleting dozens or even hundreds of troll headers,
so my subscribed newsgroups are usually low activity, some inactive
for weeks at a time (i.e., apart from what i might have posted from
time to time) . . . but without using filters, these newsgroups are
(with few exceptions) continuously targeted by troll farm "chatbots"
that constitute the 99.999% majority of all usenet content globally,
their purpose apparently to discourage the unwary from using usenet

you can ignore trolls . . . let your newsreader do it automatically.

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D <J@M> wrote:

you can ignore trolls . . . let your newsreader do it automatically.

Good advice, I deal with multi-posters that way.
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On 7/3/2026 6:58 AM, Brian wrote:

The irony is that certain usenet admins aid and abet the trolls who
started shit, and then complained about it when it got kicked back in
their faces.

From my understanding of Usenet culture, "troll"
did NOT mean cross-posting, but bullying. It had
nothing to do with what that "troll" wrote. It
should just mean bad manner.
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Mr. Man-wai Chang <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> wrote:

On 7/3/2026 6:58 AM, Brian wrote:

The irony is that certain usenet admins aid and abet the trolls who
started shit, and then complained about it when it got kicked back in
their faces.

From my understanding of Usenet culture, "troll"
did NOT mean cross-posting, but bullying. It had
nothing to do with what that "troll" wrote. It
should just mean bad manner.

Meow
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On 7/4/2026 12:35 PM, Steve Hayes wrote:

On Fri, 3 Jul 2026 11:32:30 +0800, "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> wrote:

From my understanding of Usenet culture, "troll"
did NOT mean cross-posting, but bullying. It had
nothing to do with what that "troll" wrote. It
should just mean bad manner.

Yes, you are right about that.

Cross-posting to inappropriate newsgroups is not trolling, but
spamming.

Spamming refers to posting something in newsgroups where it is
off-topic.

What is definition of "spamming" in Usenet's
dictionary? Is the definition authoritative?

Why can't users raise lots of questions
surrounding something in just a very short
period of time, thus giving you a feeling
of spamming?

SPAMMINGoL?oeiu-i*i#*-R*-Roa+E+!tUa*ouocioAet++*!> <https://dictionary.cambridge.org/zht/%E8%A9%9E%E5%85%B8/%E8%8B%B1%E8%AA%9E/spamming>

CROSS-POSTINGoL?oeiu-i*i#*-R*-Roa+E+!tUa*ouocioAet++*!> <https://dictionary.cambridge.org/zht/%E8%A9%9E%E5%85%B8/%E8%8B%B1%E8%AA%9E/cross-posting>

TROLLINGoL?oeiu-i*i#*-R*-Roa+E+!tUa*ouocioAet++*!> <https://dictionary.cambridge.org/zht/%E8%A9%9E%E5%85%B8/%E8%8B%B1%E8%AA%9E/trolling>

AUTHORITATIVEE+!uuc(t|Uo2o)t++*!>N+Uoeiu-i*-Roa+ <https://dictionary.cambridge.org/zht/%E8%A9%9E%E5%85%B8/%E8%8B%B1%E8%AA%9E-%E6%BC%A2%E8%AA%9E-%E7%B9%81%E9%AB%94/authoritative>

usenet - E+aui+o>2u!uto|E|aouAN+f*i#o+A*i#*-R*-Roa+E+!tUaoa|E+uui+o>2uu|o+A - oeiu-it+UE+e*-Roa+
<https://dictionary.cambridge.org/zht/spellcheck/%E8%8B%B1%E8%AA%9E/?q=usenet>

USENET - E+aui+o>2u!uto|E|aouAN+f*i#o+A*i#*-R*-Roa+E+!tUaoa|E+uui+o>2uu|o+A - oeiu-it+UE+e*-Roa+
<https://dictionary.cambridge.org/zht/spellcheck/%E8%8B%B1%E8%AA%9E/?q=USENET>

INTERNEToL?oeiu-i*i#*-R*-Roa+E+!tUa*ouocioAet++*!> <https://dictionary.cambridge.org/zht/%E8%A9%9E%E5%85%B8/%E8%8B%B1%E8%AA%9E/internet>
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On 7/3/2026 11:32 AM, Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:

From my understanding of Usenet culture, "troll"
did NOT mean cross-posting, but bullying. It had
nothing to do with what that "troll" wrote. It
should just mean bad manner.

What is definition of "spamming" in Usenet's
dictionary? Is the definition authoritative?

Why can't users raise lots of questions
surrounding something in just a very short
period of time, thus giving you a feeling
of spamming?

SPAMMINGoL?oeiu-i*i#*-R*-Roa+E+!tUa*ouocioAet++*!> <https://dictionary.cambridge.org/zht/%E8%A9%9E%E5%85%B8/%E8%8B%B1%E8%AA%9E/spamming>

CROSS-POSTINGoL?oeiu-i*i#*-R*-Roa+E+!tUa*ouocioAet++*!> <https://dictionary.cambridge.org/zht/%E8%A9%9E%E5%85%B8/%E8%8B%B1%E8%AA%9E/cross-posting>

TROLLINGoL?oeiu-i*i#*-R*-Roa+E+!tUa*ouocioAet++*!> <https://dictionary.cambridge.org/zht/%E8%A9%9E%E5%85%B8/%E8%8B%B1%E8%AA%9E/trolling>

AUTHORITATIVEE+!uuc(t|Uo2o)t++*!>N+Uoeiu-i*-Roa+ <https://dictionary.cambridge.org/zht/%E8%A9%9E%E5%85%B8/%E8%8B%B1%E8%AA%9E-%E6%BC%A2%E8%AA%9E-%E7%B9%81%E9%AB%94/authoritative>

usenet - E+aui+o>2u!uto|E|aouAN+f*i#o+A*i#*-R*-Roa+E+!tUaoa|E+uui+o>2uu|o+A - oeiu-it+UE+e*-Roa+
<https://dictionary.cambridge.org/zht/spellcheck/%E8%8B%B1%E8%AA%9E/?q=usenet>

USENET - E+aui+o>2u!uto|E|aouAN+f*i#o+A*i#*-R*-Roa+E+!tUaoa|E+uui+o>2uu|o+A - oeiu-it+UE+e*-Roa+
<https://dictionary.cambridge.org/zht/spellcheck/%E8%8B%B1%E8%AA%9E/?q=USENET>

INTERNEToL?oeiu-i*i#*-R*-Roa+E+!tUa*ouocioAet++*!> <https://dictionary.cambridge.org/zht/%E8%A9%9E%E5%85%B8/%E8%8B%B1%E8%AA%9E/internet>
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/ v \ May the Force and farces be with you! Live long and prosper!!
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^ ^ https://github.com/changmw/changmw
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