[mythtv-users] Myth Developers ban all use of MythTV as a PVR due to IP infringement?

[Craig Partin]

On 9/7/07, Yan Seiner <yan at seiner.com> wrote:
> Well, this whole discussion makes me think....
>
> Some time ago, on another list, we had a similar experience.  A person
> came in and started a flamefest concerning the viability of the product,
> accusing the management of all sorts of real and imagined crimes, and in
> general casting aspersions and sowing FUD.
>
> Eventually some sharp-eyed person looked at the headers, and found that
> said flamer was actually the CEO of a competing firm....
>
> So Robert, you aren't a developer / shill / whatever for MS MCE or some
> such?
>
> As I rummage for *my* tinfoil hat.
>
> :-)

It's amazing to me that people who have clearly been on the internet
for a while haven't learned the one simple rule:

Don't feed the trolls.

Ignoring them is the only way to remove their power.  Pretty much
every forum or list has a way to ignore users.  Just use it and move
on.