[Air-l] Doctorow on Dealing With Trolls

[Mark D. Johns]

T. Kennedy wrote:
> omg, can we please move on and talk about something else?!!!!! This is
> ridiculous.

Agreed. If the goal of the troll is control, this list has most 
certainly been hijacked.

I simply have set my email program's filters to shunt posts from certain 
email addresses straight to trash. It makes life on the list abundantly 
more pleasant, except when I must manually delete all of the notes in 
which my friends rise to take the bait.
-- 
Mark D. Johns, Ph.D.
Associate Professor and Head of the
  Department of Communication Studies
Luther College, Decorah, Iowa USA
http://academic.luther.edu/~johnsmar/
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