I thought I would join this group but........

Earle, I have to disagree with you here. I recall in the recent past where Bill netKKKopped some poor sod who was only trying to announce that he was auctioning off his TJ doors on E-Bay. Made quite the big deal out of it, however judging from the tone of the responses he was wrong. In fact the responses to his little public announcement of his abuse report wasted far more bandwidth than the original post. FWIW, I consider Bill's copies of abuse complaints, copies of headers, and childish retorts to his trollers to be Off Topic and a violation of the charter as they have nothing to do with Jeeps or Willys. Now, I am not saying Bill should not file complaints, and in fact I have sent a few myself, but it is his grand announcements that causes the trouble.

That's because he rarely ever files the abuse complaints. Most often, he posts that 'announcement' as though he filed a complaint, hoping to end the abuse. However, I agree. A silent complaint actually filed would do the most good for the NG peace. On that note, and in SOME cases, a warning to the offender is in order in case it was done out of ignorance, but blatant SPAM deserves no warning.

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jeff wrote:

Now we're getting into theories of punishment, which was the toughest part of my Ethics class. Let's see, there are deterrent, repudiation, and revenge. I don't believe that Bill really cares about improving the moral well being of his pursuers, so that eliminates repudiation as a motive. Deterrent is most effective, when the punishment is public. That is no doubt why Bill prefers to use "grand announcements" of every kill. If it helps at all, to deter other abusers, I don't object. Now for revenge, a public announcement is like rubbing salt into the wound. Many people would denounce revenge, as being "personal" and not morally elevated, but I like it. (Ask any of my neighbors.)

It only took me about fifteen minutes to kill file all of Bill's playmates this morning. Now they are "heard no more: it is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing."* Bill's replies, when they appear in this news group, appear to be the shadow of a mad swordsman, fencing with fantasms. In other words, typical Bill.

Earle

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But when someone points out that billy is in favor of it, then billy goes crazy.

responses he was

People hate netKKKops more than they hate spammers.

If anyone were to ever actually netKKKop billy, he'd lose his precious cox account.

After his 20th complaint to DataBasix, abuse@ started auto-forwarding his drivvel to abuse@cox He stopped after that.

You don't JOIN a USENet newsgroup. You read it and post to it.

Please provide evidence that Bill has a friend.

That's right up there with "I meant to lose that account", netk00k.

After realizing that Databasix accepted no responsibility for the abusive behavior of their clients, I began sending a copy of the abuse with header to snipped-for-privacy@cox.net in hopes they at least block their servers.

Gary L. Burnore wrote in news:e2u66u$jfv$ snipped-for-privacy@blackhelicopter.databasix.com:

I'm waiting for the "lurkers support me in email" gambit.

Man, I got a lot to learn about all this stuff.....

Subscribe to auk. You'd have a good laugh.