l, not -l > wrote:
>On 30-Mar-2009, Dan Abel > wrote:
>> (Victor Sack) wrote:
>>> Dan Abel > wrote:
>>>> The initial post in this thread did not seem like a malicious troll.
>>> Oh, really?
>> Not to me. Was there something in that first post in this thread that
>> would have alerted a casual reader to the fact that it was a malicious
>> troll?
>Regardless of the original posters intent, if you exclude this off-shoot of
>messages about trolls/trolling, the original question sparked reasonable,
>on-topic discussion. It seems that the negative aspects, and waste of
>bandwidth, had little to do with the subject of the thread - rather, it was
>all the useless usenet policing.
The OP did not seem like a troll to me. He/She seemed like
someone who offered to make dinner for a friend (possibly even,
a date) and who only has $5 and wanted some ideas that would
be impressive.
Remember, it's the end of the month and a lot of folk don't have
money.
Steve