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