OT Defeating Trolls and Spammers was: Will this work

So now we have another "Tim" posting from individual.net.

Using the same newsreader.

From the other "Tim":

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And he's using different email domains for each alias.

Sure did.

Thanks for ratifying my conclusion, dipschitt.

But what do you care? You'll just scuttle off and hide behind another psuedo-idenbreasty.

And I still won't download your articles. Nor any replies to them.

Spammers and trolls are the same people: Spammers evade your mailfilter and trolls evade your newsfilter.

Well, the trolls try you can beat them if you practice zero tolerance for trolls.

Which means that you don't read any articles from people who obviously use multiple psuedo-idenbreasties and-or the

Nor any replies to them.

You can beat spam too, but only if you practice zero tolerance.

Here's a brief introduction to mail filters that allow you to do that. They are called Challenge-Response Systems:

For trolls, read offline (from a local newsspool) and only bring down the headers by default (a default gagfile).

Excepting groups, individuals, or threads you have pbuttlisted. For new aliases, read the headers first and decide whether or not to tag their posts for article-body retrieval the next time you hit the server.

Alan

-- If you replied to an article of mine and are wondering why I didn't respond to you, the fact is that I didn't even download your article. For an explanation, see: