chatbots keep usenet alive

trolls are usenet's "connection keeper", perpetually simulating activity
in order to keep usenet alive . . . trolls are essentially chatbots that  
mimic nonsensical human conversation, posting via every available server  
en masse around the clock, as if to justify usenet's continued existence
     
server administrators may view usenet trolls as a "necessary evil" which 
is akin to postal service junkmail, busywork that helps keep them afloat, 
so usenet trolling must be accepted and propagated across peering usenet 
servers, because if trolls stopped posting, usenet would likely flatline  
 
fortunately for non-troll usenet subscribers, most newsreaders have some
filtering features (especially the global "ignore" filter i.e. "from *"),
making it easy to ignore trolls, by unignoring only helpful contributors,  
while automatically moving all else to the trash, "junk"/"troll" folders  
  
ignoring trolls is the surest and easiest way to silently support trolls,
knowing that trolls are chatbots, and usenet depends on chatbots for its  
survival as an internet-accessible repository of plain text articles and  
discussions among non-trolls, mostly unmoderated, and open to the public