[PLUG] Common Courtesy WAS: RJ45 to Coax adapter?

[Wil Cooley]

On Fri, 2004-05-07 at 16:16, AthlonRob wrote:

> I had honestly hoped that harping on him at every turn would lead him to
> leave the list again, but that doesn't seem to be working too well. 
> Michael won't learn, as his posting history demonstrates.  Michael's
> contributions to the list thus far have provided nothing positive I can
> recall.  He regularly starts ranting about various things (which
> actually lead to him leaving the list 'for good' a few months ago),
> often asks vague questions without answers, and provides the list with a
> plethora of just plain Wrong Information.

The only effective policy I've found for dealing with net kooks is to
simply ignore them.  They tend to thrive on attention, and ignoring them
tends to dry up their enthusiasm.  I also ignore them when they're not
being kooks (if ever), which further deprives them of whatever help they
might have otherwise gotten.  New subscribers may be at first misled
into responding or taking their advice seriously, but most people are
pretty quickly able to figure out who's worth listening to and who
isn't.

People using Cyrus IMAP and Sieve filtering can have message flags
automatically set in delivery, so you can just mark messages as read
without having to even open them.  Something like this:

if header :contains "From" [ "@robinson-west.com" ]
{
  addflag "\\Seen";
}

Otherwise, procmail can simply discard the messages. 

Wil
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Wil Cooley                          mailto:wcooley at nakedape.cc
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