What relationship does a troll have to the Usenet disease of wanting to have the last word?
‘Having the last word’. A troll seems to be the precise reverse. Someone who ‘drops a clanger,’ then stands back, and watches a hundred people exhausting themselves trying to have the last word. Does a troll also seek to have the last word? Top • Please reply by e-mail … I personally always feel unwilling to assist when a post ends in this way. I feel the newsgroup is a place for discussion. The suggestion that a reply should be sent by e-mail just sounds as if you can’t be bothered with the discussion, you just want a free answer. That is, of course a perfectly proper and respectable approach. It is just not one which is likely to generate much of an answer from me. • Lurking Lurking is entirely honourable. For every subscriber spouting about this and that, there are at least ten others, who read most of what passes within the group without comment; they lurk. Lurking is fine. It isn’t ‘loitering with intent’, and there are already too many of people shouting too much. A quiet perus
