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Re: MVP's Can't you STOP the spammers?
"Ken Blake, MVP" <kblake@this.is.am.invalid.domain> wrote in message
news:dvt6b39rlljbjnsufskmgjchua0mgl6e7m@4ax.com...
> On Fri, 3 Aug 2007 09:58:18 -0700, "Bob Butler" <noway@nospam.ever>
> wrote:
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>> "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.
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> 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.
I agree that it's not perfect but when several people continually respond to
them it's certainly not helping the situation. Just because a solution
isn't perfect doesn't mean it won't help some. Besides, if somebody new
falls into their little game a response to the newbie explaining that they
are arguing with a troll can shut off those avenues as well.
I just started perusing this group recently because I ran into some issues
with Vista and thought it might help and it has. Unfortunately I've already
had to killfile more people here than any other group I've ever dealt with
and am on the verge of killfiling several MVP's because so many of their
posts are just troll baiting noise. I know you guys know better.
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