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