🚀 go-pugleaf

mallet_riveter@yahoo.co.in (Hans-Marc Olsen) writes:

> Nobody needs this ancient crap anymore, buy modern software !

From the "Jargon file", http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/ :

troll

  1. v.,n. [From the Usenet group alt.folklore.urban] To utter a
     posting on Usenet designed to attract predictable responses or
     flames; or, the post itself. Derives from the phrase trolling
     for newbies which in turn comes from mainstream trolling, a
     style of fishing in which one trails bait through a likely spot
     hoping for a bite. The well-constructed troll is a post that
     induces lots of newbies and flamers to make themselves look
     even more clueless than they already do, while subtly conveying
     to the more savvy and experienced that it is in fact a
     deliberate troll. If you don't fall for the joke, you get to be
     in on it. See also YHBT.

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Maurizio Loreti                         http://www.pd.infn.it/~loreti/mlo.html
Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Padova, Italy              ROT13: ybergv@cq.vasa.vg