Re: [Thinkpad] {OT} Meaning of Troll

I think it's both, and a clever play on words.

IOW, used as a verb it's the fishing trolling, used as a noun it's
the beast-under-the-bridge troll.

=aw

On Sat, 30 Jul 2005 15:01:12 -0400, Rosen, Robert (NIH/NIAMS)
wrote:

>I used to believe that “troll” on the Internet lists related back to the
>fishing term troll or trolling, i.e., running bait thru the water hoping to
>catch something.
>
>Now of course we see phrases like “don't feed the troll” rather than
>something like “don't get hooked on the trolled bait”.
>
>So what's the real meaning? (I'd try googling for that but too painful on
>the Blackberry.)
>
>PS: so far everything from Lenovo is pre-buy design and same parts
>contracts.
>
>Despite Dell and HP speading FUD, I've seen no change other than better bid
>pricing on my latest buy of T43p's.
>
>Robert
>
>
>
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