LdB wrote:

I would like to suggest that all of you regulars of alt.home repair
take a look at the newsgroups rec.boats and rec.boats.cruising. I
have used the internet since the 1980's. Long before the days of the
World Wide Web. This newsgroup as well as the rec.boats groups were
well established before I found them.

The usernet has always been a favorite hiding place for internet
kooks and trolls. They have almost completely overwhelmed rec.boats
and are now slowly destroying rec.boats.cruising.

In both rec.boat groups it was simply a matter of the troublemaker(s)
posting off topic subjects of a political and personal nature that
many of the less restrained members could not resist responding to.
The resulting flame wars have driven off most of the serious users so
that now both groups are little more than a bunch of kooks doing
everything possible to annoy each other.

One of the biggest Off Topic troublemakers in the rec.boats group
goes by the names Harry, Harry Krause, HK and probably a few others.
He also likes to spoof the id's of others to stir up trouble when
people don't respond to his posts or trolls, which is what it is all
about in his case.

Anybody on this group notice our Harry's. We seem to have a few. Some
of our Harry's post normally. Some of our Harry's start threads like
this:

Interesting UK hand gun link

Obama, dictator of America.

The end of the world is nigh!

Take a look at the state of those other newsgroups before you decide
to respond to this one.

If you are a Harry and consider yourself a serious user of this group
I apologize for dragging you into the thread. If you are the Harry
that posts off topic would you please explain why you find it
necessary to do so. You do know there are many political newsgroups
that would welcome those posts?

For the rest of the home repair users, you have now seen what the
trolls can do to newsgroups. You can continue on as usual or you
can possibly think first before responding to a troll. Google
Internet Trolls if you need a little more convincing that there could
be a problem.

To the Harry troll

I can understand why you people would go after the rec.boats group.
In short they deserve you but that's another story. Why would you
want to come after this group? They're just a bunch of ordinary
people from all walks of life. They mean no harm to anyone. They're
just looking for simple homeowners advice or are willing to help
others with some of the same. I really can't understand why you or
others like you would get any enjoyment out of attacking a group like
this?

LdB


Add to your list David Nebenzahl, another troll who posts his off-topic
political crap, most recently regarding the blocking of ship unloading
of an Israeli ship in California.

I detest the lack of respect he shows in posting such crap on as home
repair forum. Clearly he has no respect for the other people who
frequent this forum seeking home repair information.
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