Nuxx:MPG.258f7a581d8712759896e4@news.zen.co.uk

Path: num2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!num1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!number.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!aotearoa.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!feeder.ecngs.de!ecngs!feeder2.ecngs.de!zen.net.uk!hamilton.zen.co.uk!shaftesbury.zen.co.uk.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID:  From: Guy Cuthbertson  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling,uk.transport Subject: Re: They don't like it up 'em Date: Sun, 13 Dec 2009 22:26:01 -0000 References:  Lines: 26 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: MicroPlanet-Gravity/2.9.14 Organization: Zen Internet NNTP-Posting-Host: 57ffecd7.news.zen.co.uk X-Trace: DXC=:ONH;I?7[oBb^TX8UA_h:Enok4Z\_4KE=9lfiIEn, brianwhitehead@hotmail.com says... > > It always amuses me how thin-skinned some trolls can be. Take this, > for example: > > http://groups.google.co.uk/group/uk.rec.cycling/msg/d9a8598cbc2b08bf > > You'd think that if you wanted to start a flame war, you'd first don a > flame-proof suit, wouldn't you?

Hmm. I've never seen NM trolling. Although he quite possibly does fit the standard URC definition of "troll": "An 'outsider' who comes to 'our' newsgroup and posts the 'wrong' opinions and/or reminds us of facts which we would rather weren't true."

For example only a precious few people (who usually have some sort of clout on usenet, e.g. Mark Goodge) can get away with questioning speed camera policy on URC without being called "troll" by the usual suspects at least once. It's even worse on URCM; if you question speed camera policy there then they won't even let your post through.

It's all rather pathetic. If someone finds a truth inconvenient then the best thing to do is to learn to accept that truth rather than trying to censor anyone who speaks it. That doesn't help anyone in the end.