Ignore him, correct him offlist, or killfile him and move on

[Michael]

I hardly consider 8 messages  as long and I didn't consider them as mocking
me.

On Sun, Jun 16, 2024 at 2:04 AM Steve Litt via PLUG-discuss <
plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:

> There's been a long thread of people mocking somebody who asked a
> stupid question. Yeah, the guy's annoying; annoying enough that I piped
> all his posts to /dev/null starting two or three years ago. This thread
> worsens the list's signal to noise, and personally, it constantly
> reminds me of the annoying person I killfiled years ago.
>
> I have a suggestion. If the guy annoys you, either ignore him, correct
> him offlist, or killfile him and move on. There's no need to mess up
> the list with mockery. Whether you believe, as I do, that he's an
> attention seeking troll who thinks his stupidity is cute, or whether
> you believe his behavior is entirely caused by some sort of brain
> injury, either way, the on-list mockery does no good for anybody.
>
> Ignore him, correct him offlist, or killfile him and move on.
>
> SteveT
>
> Steve Litt
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