From: Tim Hammerquist <tim@...>
Date: 2005-09-21T10:06:38+09:00
Subject: Re: The Ruby troll [was: Looking for...]

["Followup-To:" header set to comp.lang.perl.misc.]

Gunnar Hjalmarsson <noreply@gunnar.cc> wrote:
> I believe I was one of the first who realized the nature of it (the 
> troll), and I tried to called the Ruby community's attention to it: 
[ snip ]
> 
> Guess I hoped that one or two Ruby programmers would have
> dissociated themselves from his actions. The lack of responses
> there makes me blame not only the troll, but also the Ruby
> community, and in my world, that's a rational reason for not
> considering the use of the language.

Trolls are uniqely immune to people getting angry at them.
I dare say it's their *goal*.  Even assuming you manage to
enrage and embitter clr onlookers to rally against this "troll",
it would only make him more successful, no?

Besides, what is this mentality that it's one newsgroup's job to
police the actions of regular posters in another group?

This whole thread should have been replaced with a single,

    "Attention c.l.r members: this thread is somewhat off-topic
    in c.l.p.m.  Could you please remove 'comp.lang.perl.misc'
    from further Newsgroups: headers?  Thanks!"

Any further crossposting could be easily killfiled.

Cheers,
Tim Hammerquist