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This article is from the Scouting FAQ, by Bill Nelson nelsonb@nospam.aztec.asu.edu, Soaring Golden Eagle eagle@rangernet.org and Alan Houser troop24@emf.net with numerous contributions by others.

Scouting newsgroups: How to handle inflammatory postings

From: jal@cray.com (James A Lindberg)
Date: Tue Jun 11 05:50:39 1996

I would just like to say a word about trolling, for those of you who don't
know what it is. Trolling is when someone says something very controversial.
They hope to get a rise out of you. The best way to handle it is ignore it.
If you would like to respond to a troll, reply to the person directly.

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