In article , Harlan Messinger wrote:
Metspitzer wrote:
On Mon, 21 Jun 2010 13:10:25 -0500, 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 solution has always been kill filters.

Kill filters have never been a solution past a certain point, when
people first arriving for legitimate purposes see a newsgroup that's 95%
garbage and turn around on their heels, leaving the legitimate usership
of the newsgroup a closed one that dwindles through natural attrition
until it is no more.

Disagree. When trolls are ignored, they go away quickly. They will not hang
around in places where nobody feeds them. So while the problem you describe is
real, it's very short-lived.