Here are a few interesting words from http://www.searchlores.org/trolls.htm
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A troll is basically one who posts messages
intended to insult and provoke per fas et nefas (see [Trolls and Schopenhauer] below).
For each person who responds, the poster (the troll as a person) will consider that person "caught". The troll (the troll as an action) is considered to have been a complete success if it disrupts beyond repair the normal traffic on a newsgroup or on a messageboard. In extreme cases, trolls are posted by groups of trollers and crossposted to unrelated newsgroups in an attempt to destroy those groups by flooding them with flames and off-topic ranting.
---For each person who responds, the poster (the troll as a person) will consider that person "caught". The troll (the troll as an action) is considered to have been a complete success if it disrupts beyond repair the normal traffic on a newsgroup or on a messageboard. In extreme cases, trolls are posted by groups of trollers and crossposted to unrelated newsgroups in an attempt to destroy those groups by flooding them with flames and off-topic ranting.
Anil Gulecha
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Message: 16
Date: Sat, 3 Jun 2006 14:51:50 -0400
From: "y0himba" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RE: re : [Full-disclosure] n3td3v agenda revealed
To: < [email protected]>
Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Don't take this wrong, I highly respect the folks here, but I wonder how
long it is going to take folks to realize that by dignifying his posts with
replies, you give him what he wants, you fulfill some need he has. You also
perpetuate what he is trying to accomplish. I am quite sure that there is
no reason to reply to him other than to use it as a stepping stone to appear
cool, "l33t", or tough, or whatever.
Those of you who reply to the messages only please him. You are responsible
for more garbage on the list than the original poster. This "n3td3v" is
probably laughing at you because of your need to respond. I have
successfully filtered him, and I recommend you do the same. I am only
seeing the flood of spam of replies his messages generate.
Please, when he posts, just drop it. Ignore it. There is NO NEED to reply.
The replies are worse than the original email, and the replies are by far
more "lame" than the original post due to the fact that you allowed your
buttons to be pushed, or even more pathetic, that you need to reply so
everyone else can see.
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