Reading the group posts over the last few weeks since I joined, I have
seen a lot about Vito Kuhn and some about Susan Welchel. Some pretty
funny posts and some very odd responses by this Vito character.
What is the back ground? Looks as if he tried to impose his version of
morality on the group? Or maybe he is just another run of the mill
crackpot with just enough computer skills to be annoying?
Someone please fill in us newbees.
Thanks
Neil Larson
In article <[email protected]>,
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Reading the group posts over the last few weeks since I joined, I have
> seen a lot about Vito Kuhn and some about Susan Welchel. Some pretty
> funny posts and some very odd responses by this Vito character.
>
> What is the back ground? Looks as if he tried to impose his version of
> morality on the group? Or maybe he is just another run of the mill
> crackpot with just enough computer skills to be annoying?
>
> Someone please fill in us newbees.
>
> Thanks
>
> Neil Larson
>
The thread originates on news.groups, which is where it's actually
somewhat on-topic (if any thread Vito posts to can either be on-topic
or stay that way). Vito himself attracts kooks like a yappy dog behind
a fence attracts kids with sticks.
If you search Google groups you'll discover the history... Vito
wandered into the wreck one day and decided we were all desperately in
need of salvation/moderation. The he and Susan started the fam.*
hierarchy as their own little slice of heaven. But as a news hierarchy
it was stillborn, so he has returned to the Big 8 (of which rec.* is a
part) to continue his Good Works.
He's a raving nutbar, in other words.
--
You can't PLAN sincerity. You have to make it up on the spot! -- Denny Crane
On Mar 1, 12:16 pm, [email protected] wrote:
> Reading the group posts over the last few weeks since I joined, I have
> seen a lot about Vito Kuhn and some about Susan Welchel. Some pretty
> funny posts and some very odd responses by this Vito character.
>
> What is the back ground? Looks as if he tried to impose his version of
> morality on the group? Or maybe he is just another run of the mill
> crackpot with just enough computer skills to be annoying?
>
> Someone please fill in us newbees.
>
Pull up a chair, Neil... what'll be? Bourbon?
Did you ever try to sew a button onto a poached egg?
..care for another bourbon?
r
Thu, Mar 1, 2007, 9:16am (EST-3) [email protected] doth query:
<snip> Someone please fill in us newbees.
If you'll check you'll find most, if not all, of the posts are
cross-posted. They're trolls, poor sad little trolls. No social life,
feel miserable, and in return want to make life as miserable for anyone
else. If they had social skills they'd have friends, which would mean
they'd have better things to do. I've never been impressed by any of
them. Every once in awhile it is fun to poke them, to see their
reaction, sort of like poking a stick into an ant hill to watch them
rush around, but in a minute or two any entertainment value is over.
Same with trolls, fun for a few seconds, but then they'e just boring.
Like ants, you'll never get rd of them, just have to ignore them.
JOAT
When in doubt, go to sleep.
- Mully Small
In article <[email protected]>, [email protected] wrote:
>Reading the group posts over the last few weeks since I joined, I have
>seen a lot about Vito Kuhn and some about Susan Welchel. Some pretty
>funny posts and some very odd responses by this Vito character.
>
>What is the back ground? Looks as if he tried to impose his version of
>morality on the group? Or maybe he is just another run of the mill
>crackpot with just enough computer skills to be annoying?
Both, perhaps. But let's *not* go there, please. Not again.
>
>Someone please fill in us newbees.
Neil, if you want to find out what that's all about, please do a Google Groups
search... it's all there, and there's a lot of it.
--
Regards,
Doug Miller (alphageek at milmac dot com)
It's time to throw all their damned tea in the harbor again.
In article <[email protected]>, alexy <[email protected]> wrote:
>[email protected] (Doug Miller) wrote:
>>
>>Neil, if you want to find out what that's all about, please do a Google Groups
>>search... it's all there, and there's a lot of it.
>
>But thanks probably to nfilter and your filter files, I don't know
>what the OP is talking about!
I guess that's a good thing, isn't it? <g>
>I see you no longer use the sig line
>telling how to get this;
I still use it from time to time, mostly when I see a couple of troll posts
get past my filters; since many folks here use the same filters, I assume they
see the same problems I do. And whenever I see posts complaining about trolls,
I'll post the info again, too.
>it was a great service (and nice software
>that I'm surprised never caught on with a wider audience).
Well, thanks. I can't take credit for the nfilter program itself, just the
filters that I wrote for it (and some of those came from Robert Bonomi, too;
even that isn't entirely my doing). I still provide the filters, though, to
anyone and everyone, and the program is still available for download.
Here's the info again, for anyone who may be interested (in the sig, as
usual):
--
Regards,
Doug Miller (alphageek-at-milmac-dot-com)
Get a copy of my NEW AND IMPROVED TrollFilter for NewsProxy/Nfilter
by sending email to autoresponder at filterinfo-at-milmac-dot-com
You must use your REAL email address to get a response.
Download Nfilter at http://www.milmac.com/np-120.exe
[email protected] (J T) wrote:
> If you'll check you'll find most, if not all, of the posts are
>cross-posted. They're trolls, poor sad little trolls.
Swiped from another group (where it was posted after being swiped from
another group...) a good sig line to use in such discussions:
>>
>> +-------------------+ .:\:\:/:/:.
>> | PLEASE DO NOT | :.:\:\:/:/:.:
>> | FEED THE TROLLS | :=.' - - '.=:
>> | | '=(\ 9 9 /)='
>> | Thank you, | ( (_) )
>> | Management | /`-vvv-'\
>> +-------------------+ / \
>> | | @@@ / /|,,,,,|\ \
>> | | @@@ /_// /^\ \\_\
>> @x@@x@ | | |/ WW( ( ) )WW
>> \||||/ | | \| __\,,\ /,,/__
>> \||/ | | | jgs (______Y______)
>> /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\//\/\\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\
>>> ======================================================================
>
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[email protected] (Doug Miller) wrote:
>In article <[email protected]>, [email protected] wrote:
>>Reading the group posts over the last few weeks since I joined, I have
>>seen a lot about Vito Kuhn and some about Susan Welchel. Some pretty
>>funny posts and some very odd responses by this Vito character.
>>
>>What is the back ground? Looks as if he tried to impose his version of
>>morality on the group? Or maybe he is just another run of the mill
>>crackpot with just enough computer skills to be annoying?
>
>Both, perhaps. But let's *not* go there, please. Not again.
>>
>>Someone please fill in us newbees.
>
>Neil, if you want to find out what that's all about, please do a Google Groups
>search... it's all there, and there's a lot of it.
But thanks probably to nfilter and your filter files, I don't know
what the OP is talking about! I see you no longer use the sig line
telling how to get this; it was a great service (and nice software
that I'm surprised never caught on with a wider audience).
--
Alex -- Replace "nospam" with "mail" to reply by email. Checked infrequently.