On Thu, 28 Jun 2018 07:19:33 -0000 (UTC), Chris wrote:

Please don't. All they do is draw flames and you can't help yourself in
responding.

Actually, with the current purposefully persistent attempt at troll shaming
being somewhat successful, I think we've abated the trolls that still have
a shred of decency left, at least for a while.

My goal was very clearly approached and my tactics devilishly simple, such
that even the lowly trolls Frank Slootweg and Char Jackson can comprehend
what will happen each time they troll in a thread I care about.

In fact, you'll note, that the incessantly valueless trolls of the likes of
Wolf K and nospam have *subsided*, hence your prediction will likely not
come to fruition, although this explanation stimulate the trolls (since
they're here, after all, for their own amusement, and not to help others).

(Did you notice how both Char Jackson & Frank Slootweg, as I recall, were
clearly affronted that their "right to bully and troll" is being
confronted?)

Since the low-intelligence trolls like Nil & Diesel are here only for their
own amusement, they don't find much value in a tutorial, which is a rather
dry topic, filled with technicalities that they don't comprehend given
their exhibited lack of intelligence and inability to contribute
meaningfully to any technical discussion.

Just watch, for example, to see that I am correct that the trolls Frank
Slootweg, Char Jackson, Nil, Diesel, nospam, Sam Hill, Wolf K, can never
contribute even one iota of value to any technical tutorial I post.

The fewer responses to any thread, in general, the better, since the goal
is simply either (a) to ask a technical question which is hard to answer,
and/or (b) to provide knowledge so that others benefit.

Trolls can do neither - so - if they're shamed away, they will find some
other less proactive newsgroup to infest for their personal amusement.

Why not create yourself a GitHub.com (or similar) account and store your
tutorials as versioned files in a standard repository? They will then be:
-in a permanent place,
-searchable by others (much better than non-indexed Usenet archives),
-always up to date
-maintain a history
-easy, for those who want, to constructively help you hone your skills.

Public Git repositories are great places to build a community around a
common need.

This is good advice, where reasonable people will always differ on how to
provide value without giving up your privacy (e.g., I avoid logins like you
might avoid the bubonic plague).

But still, the purpose of this thread is to ask for advice from people who
actually know the answer to the question, which is, was, and will be:

*What was your experience when you last tried to get Google to archive this ng?*