--- "Rodney A. Hoiseth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Let me ask just one dumb question:
> Being relatively ignorant about 'Net jargon, I got
> stuck on one word
> in the paragraph you quoted:
> What is "trolling"? (I'm _guessing_ it is picking up
> addresses for
> selling to SPAMmers. Am I way off?)
Trolling is the deliberate posting of inflammatory
remarks to get a flamewar started.
For example, posting MACS SUCK AND MAC USERS ARE
A$$HOLES! to seattle.users.macintosh would be
a definite troll. The term comes from fishing where
you pilot a boat really slowly, dragging bait on
a hook.
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