Dealing with problems Being selective about whereyou go Just as we all make decisions about where we go and what we do in real life and to whom we reveal information, I guess we have to make the same decisions on the Internet. For anyone having unpleasant encounters via the Internet, I would urge them to move on to other areas of the Internet. There are a lot of pleasant people out there.
Some contributors find it effective to ignore troublemakers.
It only annoys thepig, and you get all muddy. We women are socialised to be nice, so we often cop the abuse and then try to make the abuser feel better. I have an honours degree in French literature but my accent is not pure Parisian'. A couple of years back, rec.pets.cats received a few deliberately offensive messages detailed how someone tortured a cat. The first time it happened, dozens and dozens of people wrote back to the newsgroup outraged.