Notan wrote:

> How is kill filing childish?

Without kill-filing, Usenet would be almost unusable. Many of the groups
are over-run with trolls that clutter up the newsgroup with their
nonsensical posts. They crave attention, and the fact that Usenet is
rather anonymous, they can be disruptive and annoying and see the
reaction that they get. It's almost like a child testing a parent to see
how far they can go with bad behavior before being sent to their room.

Personally, I kill-file very few posters. It's bad form to kill-file
someone just because they have different opinions than your own.

I kill-filed the individual in question because he is a pathological
liar, he is unable to rationally look at factual information and gain
anything from it if it conflicts with his personal agenda. He spams
newsgroups with his periodic postings, he illegally posts copyrighted
material, and he is somehow convinced that charters for one newsgroup
should be endlessly posted in newsgroups to which they have no
relevance. He has made shilling for Cingular his life's work, but
fortunately we don't have to give him the satisfaction of reading his
crap. It also saves time to not have to wade through irrelevant and
nonsensical posts when reading the newsgroups. Unlike the individual in
question, I have a life outside of Usenet!