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To: Epinephrine who wrote (63258)	11/9/2001 7:18:01 PM
From: fyodor_	Respond to of 275872

Epi: 1) In order to truly ignore Paul you need to ignore responses to him. This may be true but if you find value in the responses to Paul then by implication Paul's incitation of that response had value too. If Paul actually serves to inspire valuable responses to his posts that would otherwise not have been made then his post has a certain little bit of value itself. So if you simply can't bring yourself to use the ignore feature to block responses to Paul then you are implicitly conceding that Paul's incitations do add some perverted form of value. This is incorrect for a number of reasons. One example would be that a lot of posters simply reply to the newest message when posting new information - and with Paul's posting frequency... ;-) Another example would be the secondary information in "counter-posts" (those in response to Paul). It's not uncommon for people to not want to simply counter one one-liner with another, so they also use it to present new (unrelated) information - or they may try to steer the topic of discussion back in the original, non-abusive direction. Neither of these are "responses to his post that would otherwise not have been made". -fyo