[Air-l] Doctorow on Dealing With Trolls

[Bonnie Nardi]

I am going to filter out this discussion, now that Mark mentions it. 
I've heard enough...

On May 17, 2007, at 3:48 PM, Mark D. Johns wrote:

> 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/
> -----------------------------------------------
> "Get the facts first. You can distort them later."
>      ---Mark Twain
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Bonnie A. Nardi
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