A word about trolling Was: My Favorite FANTASTIC Wine

It is obvious that Radium is not serious about his posts and while he seems to possess a little (dangerous) scientific knowledge about what he writes about, he is only out to push everyone's buttons rather than engage in serious discussion. In previous postings he was known to constantly shift his position whenever he felt his "food fantasy" was too reasonable.

Those subscribers to sci.bio.food-science who feel his intent to be serious (that won't be too many people) should be the only people answering the post. The rest of us -- rather than indulge in name-calling should just ignore Radium. I figure that the threads won't nearly be as long if this rule is followed. Raising the pH of wine above 7, for that reason alone, would disqualify him from reasoned discourse about foods in general let alone wine. But if anyone wants to indulge him, please do so without the name-calling.

Radium appears to be fishing for aggravated responses, and this is called "Trolling". Trolls tend to be attention-seekers (including negative attention), and the only reasonable way to handle them is not to give them that attention. I have observed that Radium has broadcasted his posting to 5 newsgroups - this is typical of trolling behaviour.

In short: "Don't feed the trolls". People responding to Radium should kindly are subscribing so that the rest of us don't have to wade through this stuff.

Thanks for everyone's co-operation.

Paul King