Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> ____/ Peter Köhlmann on Sunday 28 October 2007 09:37 : \____
>
>> peterwn wrote:
>>
>>> On Oct 28, 10:35 am, traci.manico...@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>>>> It appears that the hypocrites in comp.os.linux.advocacy are hard at
>>>> work behind the scenes attempting to have people who disagree with
>>>> them silenced.
>>>> I received a notice from my ISP that several complaints had been
>>>> logged against me for posting off topic posts in
>>>> comp.os.linux.advocacy.
>>>
>>> Well, it was the wintrolls who were complaining about Roy's postings
>>> to the Vice-Chancellor of his university, or they conveniently forget
>>> this. As well as some of the quite disgusting comments from wintrolls
>>> about people whose postings are 100% within the purpose of the ng - is
>>> it the third or fourth word (or both) of the title COLA they do not
>>> understand.
>>
>> I am quite certain that people complained (that is *if* anyone complained at
>> all) because flatfish posted libellous stuff. And impersonated others.
>
> Yes, Gary Stewart and co. were causing as much chaos as they could and harassed
> random people around here. It was not effective, however, because some of
> these people know me in person
>
> Ironically, what the trolls did had the opposite effect because I actually got
> to know and speak to people whom I never would meet otherwise.
>
> The fact remains that their intend was malicious.
>
Absolutely it was malicious.
Having said that, I fully support any efforts by anyone in dealing with
people trolling this newsgroup. The Charter and FAQ are quite clear in
terms of acceptable material for this group, and most people are warned
several times over anyway.
Gary, Scott and whoever else are trolling this group can either clean up
their act, or expect to have further action taken. I *know* that
several people have had accounts terminated because of their behaviour
here, on cola.
As Roy is no longer posting via his University News Server, the
malicious attacks will not work.
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