stuff and nonsense

Wed Dec 2 19:46:44 EST 2015

In a message of 2015年12月02日 22:51:13 +0000, Denis McMahon writes:
>On 2015年12月02日 11:32:25 -0600, Ian Kelly wrote:
>>> In what way is discussion of a tangential topic feeding the troll? Said
>> troll is not even participating in the discussion.
>>Reposting / responding / following up with the original subject boosts 
>the visibility of the subject to internet search engines because of the 
>way newsgroups get gated to websites.
>>-- 
>Denis McMahon, denismfmcmahon at gmail.com

That is not what I was told. I was told that these days it is all
done by References: lines. Thus changing the Subject no longer has
this effect. Wrong?
Laura