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Filtering the Anonymous USENET Trolls?

Posted by Cliff on from the combatting-anonymous-remailers-used-for-evil dept.

BoneFlower asks: "Anonymous remailers are all well and good, but sometimes people use them to abuse people through email or through trolling newsgroups. I've had limited results filtering "anonymous" on a USENET group I frequent but many anonymous remailer trolls get through. The group was nearly unuseable for over a week due to the volume of anonymous remailer trolls. Does anyone have tips on filtering them out? I personally use Forte Agent 1.9.1, many others use Netscape/Mozilla, OE, and various others. If you could help us out, we'd appreciate it."

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  1. How ironic... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    We see a thread full of trolls in response to a story about how to avoid trolls. Perhaps you should not have used Slashdot for this purpose? And in response to your question, everyone knows usenet is only for pr0n and mp3z/w4r3z. :-P