[Richard Crowley]

"alex reznick"wrote ...
It is sad that so many competent and constructive people have to
suffer from one menacing jerk.

"Suffer" seems overstated. More like one of those pesky flying
bugs that you keep having to shoo away from your face.

Aren't there ways to blacklist him?

Back when newsserver providers were conscientious individuals
with a sense of their role in the maintenance of Usenet, yes trolls
like McCarty would be blacklisted.

But now that large corps like AOL and Google and medium-size
corps like California Prime Line (parent company of troll-central
BuzzardNews) have got into the act, there is no longer any sort
of control over customers. Indeed this may have been the
congenital defect of Usenet, that it is dependent on conscientious
server/user management.

After all, forging somebody else correspondence is a federal crime.


Since McCarty is in Australia, he probably feels beyond the reach
of US Federal law. Not that there is any evidence of them going
after home-grown trolls, anyway.

The Brian seems to get a kick from breaking laws.

I suspect he would get a kick out of it even if it weren't breaking
laws.

[Rich Grise[_2_]]

On Mon, 03 Aug 2009 13:19:06 -0700, Richard Crowley wrote:
"alex reznick"wrote ...
It is sad that so many competent and constructive people have to
suffer from one menacing jerk.

"Suffer" seems overstated. More like one of those pesky flying
bugs that you keep having to shoo away from your face.

Aren't there ways to blacklist him?

If you have a real news server and a real newsreader, your newsreader
should have a "filter" feature.

If you're using google, then I guess you're SOL, and have to use
the intelligent filter - i.e., your brain. ;-)

Cheers!
Rich