Nuxx:E00697b9-066e-48ac-93e8-0482b9b8350d@v28g2000hsv.googlegroups.com

Path: number1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!postnews.google.com!v28g2000hsv.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Message-ID:  From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling Subject: Re: "Don't feed the Troll" posts Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2008 08:20:55 -0700 (PDT) References:  Lines: 30 Organization: http://groups.google.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 88.105.255.206 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1222874456 1927 127.0.0.1 (1 Oct 2008 15:20:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2008 15:20:56 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: v28g2000hsv.googlegroups.com; posting-host=88.105.255.206; posting-account=7_6kYAkAAABD6HrjM0VxehwvZOKMxm4g User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.2) Gecko/2008091620 Firefox/3.0.2,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Bytes: 2506 Xref: perfectly-safe.chapmancentral.co.uk uk.rec.cycling:669861

On Oct 1, 4:10=A0pm, Tom Crispin  wrote: > The Breidbart Index is used, as a guide, by many ISPs to decided if > messages to newsgroups are cancellable spam. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breidbart_Index > > Each substantially similar post, by a single person, over a 45 day > period is counted. =A0Quoted text is not considered. =A0For a single > message posted to multiple newsgroups, the square root of the number > of newsgroups posted to is added to the Breidbart Index Value. > > It is generally agreed by ISPs that a Breidbart Index of 20 or over is > cancellable spam. > > The recent spate of "Don't feed the Trolls" posts has now exceeded, or > is close to exceeding, a Breidbart Index value of 20, and is therefore > cancellable spam or close to being cancellable spam. > > I therefore suggest to the "Don't feed the trolls" posters that they > stop spamming the group with their posts immediately. =A0If they do not > they risk action being taken against them by their Internet service > providers.

GENIUS! The wanker's getting flak from all sides, and quite right too.

Going to stop the useless, hypocritical, trolling replies now, "_"? (Of course, even if you do, I'm still going to target you for a long time yet...should have heeded that final warning!)