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____/ William Poaster on Monday 19 May 2008 11:18 : \____

> On Mon, 19 May 2008 02:39:44 +0100, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>> ____/ Bamm on Sunday 18 May 2008 17:24 : \____
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>>> And someone in this group even called me a troll inspite of my efforts
>>> to get astronomy software ported to Linux and/or working in Wine.
>> 
>> Imagine a village fool of villains where it's hard to recognise
>> non-villains. The trolling in this newsgroup has led people to prejudice
>> against unfamiliar names (trolls tend to change names very frequently to
>> escape filters, so new names always arouse suspicion).
> 
> True, but if the filtering is done *right* their nymshifting is for
> nothing. :-)

Yes, that would work under normal circumstances, but some genuine posters use
the same routes sometimes (collision). Also, due to libel against some real
posters that advocate Linux, they choose anonymity or change display names. I
never did this myself.

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