Ned Latham wrote:

Peter Wicks (aka "Che Guava"), posting as "fasgnadh" wrote:

A rant about some yank promoting his book through a Senate enquiry.
More false advertising.

Nothing worth reading.

the ostrich is reputed to bury its head to avoid seeing that which it
fears

do you reckon it would work, ned?

* 4.1. Why don't you just ignore him or killfile him?
*
* I'm archiving act-b. Killfiling is not an option for me.
* For others, well...
*
* The standard Usenet advice of ignoring/killfiling trolls
* might work okay against simple mischief, but it's useless
* against trolls with an agenda. It's self-defeating when
* the trolls' agenda includes misrepresenting the purpose
* of the group and the nature of the group's topic. Moreover,
* in order to ignore/killfile trolls, one must know who they
* are, so that approach is useless for newbies to a newsgroup,
* especially one being subjected to that sort of attack.
*
* A stronger response than the ostrich attitude is required.
* ...