On Tue, 13 Aug 2002, Don wrote:
> >> Someone on my list decides to "go troll".
> "Troll" and "go troll" are new terms to me in the context of
> mailing lists. Would someone kindly enlighten me as to their
> meaning?
They mean the same things as they do on Usenet. There are varieties of
trolling, but basically it is to play innocent and post exceedingly
provokative messages in an attempt to start a "flame war". But it can
mean other things in list context. Someone who percistantly insists on
their right to post off topic, even if other list members are getting
annoyed and are leaving.
I've had a couple of those, and I eventually put them on manaul approval
for their posts. When they unsubscribed and resubscribed to do the same
under other addresses, I eventually had to put an IP block under manual
approval.
Whether he was deliberately trolling or being innocently distruptive (but
uneducable) is something I'll never know.
-j
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Jeffrey Goldberg http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/
Relativism is the triumph of authority over truth, convention over justice
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