The Troll Threads.
To: K-list
Recieved: 2003/01/08 14:40
Subject: Re: [K-list] Re:DrTroll: please do not feed.
From: Mystress Angelique Serpent
On 2003/01/08 14:40, Mystress Angelique Serpent posted thus to the K-list:
At 11:41 AM 07/01/03, shellelr AT_NOSPAM aol.com wrote:
>I looked at these very enlightening posts, and WOW this guy is
>incredibly evil and sad.
Hmm, pathetic, really. Wasted life.
>My spirit speaks truth to Little Me so gorgeously and eloquently.
Beautiful.
>I'm sorry I unintentionally fueled the troll's ugly fire with my
>expression of personal vulnerabilities. I am used to being able to
>safely talk about fears, doubts, whatever on this list, and be met
>with wisdom and compassion.
And you are, again. :) With many co-moderators, changing the list to moderated status temporarily is not too bad. Many hands make light work. (Motto of the electricians union!)
Ironically, just last week I was reflecting on how, in the past, two years in a row I ended up moving the list to another server, on new years. Thinking how good it was not to have to, again... but got an odd feeling of not-resonant... and then along came this latest hassle.
The first time the list moved, from execpc to esosoft, it was motivated by an attempted takeover by several hostile personalities, who are now the owners of the other Kundalini AT_NOSPAM yahoogroups.com list.
The move turned out to be very beneficial, the new system much easier to use and more reliable, with spam blocking features the original listserv list did not have... but, that service decided to abandon hosting mailing lists and transferred us to topica. The members did not like topica, so we ended up here. It was onelist, back then.
The way yahoo has been increasing their advertising lately, it seems that their spam filter is just to keep other folks spam out! Plus, they employ increasing amounts of snooping software to track user info and web usage beyond what occurs on their site. I'm getting kind of fed up with yahoogroups. I have considered moving the list a few times in the past year.
Looking into it, I see the server we first moved to, which still hosts the mirror version of the website, is again offering mailing lists. $60.usd per year to have the list free of spam and advertising seems well worth it, to me. The provider itself is good, I have never had problems with them, and I have used a lot of different providers before. The other option is to run an in-house mailing list at the domain site. Some of the structure to do that is in place already, but I am not sure if I could arrange a web-only option.
>What I know and the troll could not was that the fact that "he got to
>me" speaks only of my challenge of trust and surrender to this
>spiritual process I am going through, however I choose to label it.
That is lovely.
>This experience presented me to myself in all my obsessive glory. It is good
>to know that even when someone spews spiritual ignorance and personal
>ugliness at people, it may be transmuted to something useful.
Yes, indeed. A negative motivation can be as useful as a positive one, if the outcome is positive. The increasing inconvenience of yahoogroups was not motivation enough to move the list, so Goddess provides! : )
I really do not care about being slandered, my years as a pro-dom gave me plenty of experience handling the hostility of frustrated men, plus my web presence draws a certain amount of strange mail, and having several domains means getting extraordinary amounts of spam spam spam... but I do not like the members getting a lot of unwanted hostile mail. I am accustomed to it, but most members are not and I am the dragon at the gate. I am a little annoyed at how much time it is taking to deal with it. I have a lot of other things on my plate right now, but fortunately the work is shared by many wonderful co-moderators, to whom I am very grateful.
>I am feeling pissed off and at myself and ill-used, but I am
>grateful. I surrender. I am grateful.
How powerfully the application of gratitude can change an outlook, eh?
Blessings...
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