Hello Leif, On Tue, 29 Jun 2004 11:54:02 -0600 GMT (30/06/2004, 00:54 +0700 GMT), Leif Gregory wrote:
Iain>> Okay, it's been puzzling me for ages and I've now I've got to ask Iain>> ... Why call such moderator messages a 'trout'? LG> IIRC it started on FIDONet as "The moderator / SYSOP slaps *SOME NAME* LG> with a trout!" as a means of lighthearted "punishment". I haven't been LG> able to definitively locate a resource that explains where the trout LG> originated, Do you know Asterix & Obelix? The fish seller, called Verleihnix in German (don't know the English name) slaps people with one of his dead fish when he gets angry. Those fish apparently are trouts. The joke is older than Fidonet or any BBS. -- Cheers, Thomas. Moderator der deutschen The Bat! Beginner Liste. Wer mit seinem Latein am Ende ist, sollte eine andere Sprache lernen. Message reply created with The Bat! 2.11 under Chinese Windows 98 4.10 Build 2222 A using a Pentium P4 1.7 GHz, 256MB RAM ________________________________________________ Current version is 2.11.02 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
