I find it marginally useful to have the trolls around, then you can build better and better arguements against their supid ideas - it's a good, but wasted excercise. It's something like building better mouse traps - only sadly, these mice don't learn, so the challenge just isn't there. If you're bored, you can tweak them, otherwise in the .procmailrc they go. :) But did you notice how all the spams about "How to build a pipe bomb with stuff that came out from my ass" have vanished in the last few years? I do suspect some of those were morons from AOL (or other unthinking zones on the net), but some of those AOL morons were FedZ. Or so we gather from the fun of the Jimmy B/otoT trials. It wouldn't surprise me to find some of the current trolls are FedZ. Wasn't there something in police tests, where if you're too smart you can't be a cop - because you'd be bored? I wonder if that applies to FedZ too? It would certainly explain the lack of intelligence these neo-trolls display. Where are Dr. Denning and Sterndark when you need a good fight to pick, eh? (Retheroical: I know Denning changed her tune a while ago...) 8^) ----------------------Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos--------------------------- + ^ + :25Kliters anthrax, 38K liters botulinum toxin, 500 tons of /|\ \|/ :sarin, mustard and VX gas, mobile bio-weapons labs, nukular /\|/\ <--*-->:weapons.. Reasons for war on Iraq - GWB 2003-01-28 speech. \/|\/ /|\ :Found to date: 0. Cost of war: $800,000,000,000 USD. \|/ + v + : The look on Sadam's face - priceless! --------_sunder_@_sunder_._net_------- http://www.sunder.net ------------ On Fri, 2 May 2003, Bill O'Hanlon wrote:
It's a constant distraction.
It's analogous to a radio astronomy mailing list constantly being trolled by flat earthers.
Once the flat earthers leave, the conversation will get interesting again.