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Old 08-03-2007   #14 (permalink)
Ken Blake, MVP


 
 

Re: MVP's Can't you STOP the spammers?

On Fri, 3 Aug 2007 09:58:18 -0700, "Bob Butler" <noway@nospam.ever>
wrote:

> "Bill Yanaire" <bill@yanaire.com> wrote in message
> news:eQQ0Toe1HHA.3760@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
> > Just get use to it. MVP's are volunteers and have no authority to police
> > the group. Since this is open to the public, even the Linux zealots can
> > post whenever they want to.

>
> But it'd really help if everybody would stop responding to them.



It sure would, but experience has shown this to be a pipe dream. Even
if everyone here stopped today, there would be new people here
tomorrow and they would respond.

The only solution, imperfect as it is, is use of the killfile.


> They're
> here because they get attention and if they stop getting that feedback
> they'd go away or, at the very least, the group wouldn't be cluttered with
> all the responses and back-and-forth name calling.
>


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