Quoth "Marshall Spight" <marshall.spight (AT) gmail (DOT) com>:
Harlan Ellison would be proud... "I have no keyboard but I must
scream"

(There *is* an Ellison connection; see the Wikipedia entry on The
Terminator if need be :-).)
--
"cbbrowne","@","gmail.com"
http://cbbrowne.com/info/internet.html
Rules of the Evil Overlord #193. "If I am using the hero's girlfriend
as a hostage and am holding her at the point of imminent death when
confronting the hero, I will focus on her and not him. He won't try
anything with his true love held hostage. On the other hand, the fact
that she has been weak, slow-witted, naive and generally useless up to
this point has no bearing on her actions at the moment of dramatic
climax." <http://www.eviloverlord.com/>

"Marshall Spight" <marshall.spight (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote

Good research Marshall. I stand corrected.

Christopher Browne <cbbrowne (AT) acm (DOT) org> wrote:

You congratulate him on what - taking everything out of context or
claiming that one side of a religious dispute is allowed to troll
while another is not allowed to speak, at all?

Go down his examples. People have called each other names on Usenet
for a long time. These same individuals calling me names, would call
others just the same thing, in other threads, when they became
frustrated that they didn't get full agreement, or whatever injury
they imagined.

"David Cressey" <dcressey (AT) verizon (DOT) net> wrote:

You, too? So this guy finds a number of complaints, taken out of
context, from people sometimes engaged in religious arguments, where
they quickly turned to trolling, and insanity, including calling me a
troll. You ought to investigate a little further, and see the sort who
made those accusations.

There's a long message which I posted in this thread which explains
all of that. It's the part he didn't tell you.

Mark Johnson <102334.12 (AT) compuserve (DOT) com> wrote:

My point here, was not clear. mAsterdam had taken excerpts from recent
threads in this ng, but was careful not to include any of my replies
to such accusations. In his court, I could not defend myself. And I
took him to task for that, subsequently.

Reasonable sources for dealing with this sort of thing, given it now
appears to be occuring on cdt, can be found at:

http://members.aol.com/intwg/trolls.htm
http://www.angelfire.com/space/usenet/

A noteworthy line from the above links is: "When you try to reason with
a troll, he wins. When you insult a troll, he wins. When you scream at
a troll, he wins. The _only_ thing that trolls can't handle is being
ignored."

all best, Jim.

"JOG" <jog (AT) cs (DOT) nott.ac.uk> wrote:

Please. By all means, go post to some other thread. Stop this
trolling. Stop with the character attacks. Stop with all this useless
clutter.

Enough already! How many times does it have to be said. Enough with
these pointless threads.

Marshall Spight wrote:
Very interesting read, most trolls I have met have some skin in the
opposing camp/argument, but this one is obviously different.

I can only assume some institution providing care has allowed access to
usenet for release. I can't conceive of a person in this condition
functioning in the wider world.

It is curious, perhaps a badge of honour, that the same call sign has
been in use for so long.

Cheers, Frank.