"Bee" <in.my.bonnet@Shangri-La.com> wrote in message
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> Harlan Osier wrote:
> > ...the Netcops.These people usually are oppressed
> > ones in real-life and have created their own rules in "their"
> > newsgroups.In "their" newsgroups, they are "the boss", the "police
> > chief", "the sheriff in town".
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> Yes, I have seen them at work.  The name, Netcops, is new to me, but
> they do behave as you described.  Extraordinarily foul and aggressive
> language is their weapon.  They pick their victims as they choose.  One
> gang, for example, hangs out in the MS Windows XP (General) newsgroup.
> These are the hoodlums of the cyber world.  Their formation, antics and
> background would be interesting topics in a Sociology research project.
>
> Bee.
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foul language?
that would be moonshadao.
he sets the standard here.
how many otherwise valuable
contributors has he turned off.
what surprises me is how many
are sympathetic to his cause.
i guess the usa is so rank
with xian proselytizers and
new-agers that this ng must seem
like the place to get back at them.
what a waste of an otherwise
friendly, tolerant and peaceful place.