stuff and nonsense

[Laura Creighton]

In a message of Wed, 02 Dec 2015 22:51:13 +0000, Denis McMahon writes:
>On Wed, 02 Dec 2015 11:32:25 -0600, Ian Kelly wrote:
>
>> In what way is discussion of a tangential topic feeding the troll? Said
>> troll is not even participating in the discussion.
>
>Reposting / responding / following up with the original subject boosts 
>the visibility of the subject to internet search engines because of the 
>way newsgroups get gated to websites.
>
>-- 
>Denis McMahon, denismfmcmahon at gmail.com

That is not what I was told.  I was told that these days it is all
done by References: lines.  Thus changing the Subject no longer has
this effect.  Wrong?

Laura