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Subject:Re: And you wonder why people lurk... From:"Suzanne Townsend" <suzyt -at- hfx -dot- eastlink -dot- ca> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Thu, 18 Apr 2002 08:05:00 -0300
> I can't speak for Andrew
Keith, I think you did speak for Andrewl:
> BTW - I never considered Andrew's initial post to be a troll. It just
> seemed like a humorous aside
To my mind, it is indeed trolling when you intentionally try to cause a
stir. Ref: "a style of fishing in which one trails bait through a likely
spot hoping for a bite." (This activity should have been curtailed last
November, but Eric doesn't see this as trolling because he too is a fish.)
> For those of us
> familiar with his online oeuvre, this was both ironic and amusing.
For those of us familiar with this j**k's online "oeuvre," as you so
delicately put it, this was neither ironic nor amusing, but just more
annoying red-herring garbage, thinly cloaked.
--Suzanne
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