Steve wrote:
> Harry,
>
> I'll not take your rotten bait. (it's been the same for years, hence too
> mouldy to entertain)
>
> [snip]
>
> Go ahead and expound, Harry. Nobody cares. And I'll not reply again to
> your introspections on these matters. I wish that there was mandatory
> voting by listmembers to put pompous certitude in its place.
Down the digital hall and around the corner in Usenet newsgroups,
Harry's self-confessed bear-baiting is called "trolling". With a
rather less refined standard of discourse than that which we try to
maintain on FutureWork, Usenet trolls are sometimes successful in
their efforts to provoke pointless controversy and richly scatological
flamage or, alternatively, are simply "plonked" -- filtered out by
individual readers' software -- or are greeted with "The Sign":
.:\:/:.
+-------------------+ .:\:\:/:/:.
| PLEASE DO NOT | :.:\:\:/:/:.:
| FEED THE TROLLS | :=.' - - '.=:
| | '=(\ 9 9 /)='
| Thank you, | ( (_) )
| Management | /`-vvv-'\
+-------------------+ / \
| | @@@ / /|,,,,,|\ \
| | @@@ /_// /^\ \\_\
@x@@x@ | | |/ WW( ( ) )WW
\||||/ | | \| __\,,\ /,,/__
\||/ | | | jgs (______Y______)
/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\//\/\\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\
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