[D-community-offtopic] NSA into Debian distribution!

[Zenaan Harkness]

On 2/14/14, Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf at alice-dsl.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 2014-02-13 at 11:07 -0500, Dave Woyciesjes wrote:
>> On 02/12/2014 06:58 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote:
>> > On 13/02/14 10:24, latinfo at vcn.bc.ca wrote:
>> >> Hello List
>> >>
>> >> I was very alert for almost 14 years,
>> > <snipped>
>> >
>> > Great, but I think you're posting to the wrong list.
>> > Try trollsrus.org or witlingfools.org

>>      Makes me think of an article I saw yesterday:
>> It's a scientific FACT: Online comment trolls are SADISTS * The Register
>> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/02/12/study_shoes_that_online_comment_trolls_are_sadists/
>
> Bullshit! This is much more spam than the OPs message is spam! Please
> folks stop posting irrelevant crap, at least mark your mails as OT or
> send them to the OT mailing list.

Some are getting the hang of posting to d-community-offtopic, and I
realised today, that in my (previous) response to this thread, I
should also have posted to ot list, but CC'ed the troll, since I held
quarter of a belief that the troll may have actually been seriously
misguided (although I doubt that).

So now I have a new protocol:
post reply to -ot
CC the troll privately (unless it's someone I know is subscribed to -ot)

> Seriously! There is no argument that makes this statistic serious! There
<snippety snip>

Come on Ralph! You of all people should see the humour/sarcasm/OT-ness
of the comment. Really :)

The only outpoint is that we've all been posting to debian-user rather
than d-community-offtopic, which is unfortunate, but we can continue
to train ourselves to improve... I know that podium is hard to resist
fellow debianites, but lets ... continue to try to resist the trolls
... and move our counter trolling/humour/ot-stuff onto -ot :)