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Joe Mehaffey  
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 More options Aug 1 2002, 7:56 pm
Newsgroups: alt.satellite.gps
From: Joe Mehaffey <j...@mehaffey.com>
Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2002 19:53:48 -0400
Local: Thurs, Aug 1 2002 7:53 pm
Subject: Re: Magellan Software is Terrible
Paraphrasing from "The Joy of Linux" by Michael Hall & Brian Proffitt:

Troll--An individual who regularly posts specious arguments, flames,
or personal attacks to a newsgroup, discussion list, or in email for
no other purpose than to annoy someone or disrupt a discussion.  Trolls
are recognizable by the fact that they have no real interest in learning
about the topic at hand--they simply want to utter flame bait.  Like the
ugly creatures after which they are named, they exhibit no redeeming
characteristics, and as such, they are recognized as a lower form of
life on the Net, as in, "Oh, ignore him, he's just a troll."

Trolls, of course, exploit something all newbies have in common: the
desperate desire to fit in with their new community (in this case the
GPS discussion community).

Fits Ben David's childish behavior to a T
--
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