aliasscript to access Google archives was A question about windoze trolls
Correction: Someone who sometimes calls himself the above
I have a good one. Plus the keyboard macro to call it while using slrn.
Correction: Someone who sometimes calls himself "WCJ" That's not the From header of a newbie. And trolls often make a point of hating spam because many of them are...
It produces reports like this, with a single keystroke:
Results 1 - 100 of 348 posts in the last year 1 alt.books 7 alt.fan.cecil-adams 12 alt.folklore.computers 1 alt.gossip.celebrities 4 alt.support.childfree 10 alt.usage.english 1 comp.arch 4 comp.editors 1 comp.edu 1 comp.human-factors 1 comp.lang.c++ 6 comp.lang.fortran 5 comp.lang.java.help 9 comp.lang.java.programmer 7 comp.os.linux.misc 1 comp.parallel.mpi 16 comp.programming 1 comp.sys.mac.advocacy 8 comp.text.tex 1 comp.unix.admin 1 misc.consumers.frugal-living 1 misc.test 1 soc.culture.usa
Wrote it myself.
But I don't help trolls, and you are a stinking troll.
I'm acquainted with this troll, who has posted using variants of that alias (and completely different ones) and used different newsservers. He's an obnoxious needle.
No one who uses trn (an unstable test version, even) and individual.net only posts 348 times in a year. You have to be dedicated to the Usenet to make those choices.
He posts that many times a week. Minimum.
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:
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