Re: That is a good way to be classed as a troll.

On Wed, 4 Mar 2009 10:09:42 -0500, "James Silverton"
<not.jim.silverton@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Peter wrote on Wed, 04 Mar 2009 14:42:30 +0000:

Django Cat wrote:
James Hogg wrote:

On Wed, 04 Mar 2009 08:44:53 GMT, "Django Cat"
<notareal@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Steve Hayes wrote:

The verb "to troll" means to drag a fishing line behind a
boat in
the >>> hope of catching a fish.

For some values of E only. See 'trawl'.

Are AmE (and, I presume, SAE) fishing boats 'trollers'?
Apparently there's a difference between "trawling" (pulling
a net behind a boat" and "trolling" (pulling baited lines
behind a boat).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troll_(angling)

James

YLAL...

This has come up before - I've only ever encountered it in
Usenet, but I think we discovered that it is native British
Isles English albeit restricted to people who actually do it.

Trawling OED hooked this shoal:

DRAFT ADDITIONS JUNE 2006

troll, v.

* intr. Computing slang. To post a deliberately erroneous
or
antagonistic message on a newsgroup or similar forum with
the
intention of eliciting a hostile or corrective response.
Also
trans.: to elicit such a response from (a person); to post
messages
of this type to (a newsgroup, etc.).

I'm surprised that troll, n. once a supernatural being or giant, now
conceived of as an imp, does not also have an added draft definition of
one who trolls as above.

It is there under troll, n1. which lists the fishing-related senses of
troll.

DRAFT ADDITIONS JUNE 2006

troll, n.1

* Computing slang. A person who posts deliberately erroneous or
antagonistic messages to a newsgroup or similar forum with the
intention of eliciting a hostile or corrective response. Also: a
message of this type.
[Perhaps influenced by TROLL n.2] {The Scandinavian troll}

The first quote is:

1992 Re: Why Not? in alt.folklore.urban (Usenet newsgroup) 14 Dec.,
If I didn't know better I would swear that this post bears the mark
of the inevitable Peter van der Linden in troll mode.

I have read that Scandinavian people attribute other characteristics to
trolls in that they tend to live under bridges and have poor personal
hygiene.

--
Peter Duncanson, UK
(in alt.usage.english)
.

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