__/ [ AB ] on Wednesday 24 January 2007 01:23 \__
> On 2007-01-23, Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> claimed:
>> __/ [ William Poaster ] on Tuesday 23 January 2007 11:52 \__
>
>>> That's one of the great things about Leafnode, IMHO, that it wipes the
>>> trolls etc, at server level. :-)
>>
>> There's more of them showing up nowadays. you just know Vista is coming.
>> It means the filters have to devour some extra CPU cycle and lower the
>> bandwidth.
>
> Until yesterday or today my filters were reducing up to 50% on average.
> The last day or two has seen a spike as high as 70%. I haven't added a
> single rule in a couple of weeks. So the increase is only a measure of
> increased activity.
>
> I've noticed one or two who were hit by the filters that might not
> deserve to be completely knocked out. But that's typical of how it was
> going before the rise in numbers of 'posting dead' that I've seen.
>
> It'll all be over soon enough. Many of them will get Fisted (in more
> ways than one) and not be able to get online to post anything, either
> because Vista will screw them up and make their machines unstable, or
> because their parents will use the "new" net-nanny filtering MS is
> going to have available.
Well, I think it's a matter of budget. There has been a rise recently in the
number of unique trolls (or nyms). You know where lumps of that $1.5 billion
advertisement budgets are funnelled to... it was the same with OS/2... and
Microsoft got caught red-handed.
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