On 2012-05-12 22:14:16 +0000, George M. Middius said:

> blotflot wrote:
>
>> The trick is getting "real people" to give answers to a real troll.
>
> "Troll" is one of the most over-used words on Usenet. Many posters
> don't know the difference among trolling, spamming, and argumentation.
> They are all different, but try telling that to the one-word ******s
> who fancy themselves the arbiters of "proper" Usenet posting.

I had concluded "troll" had a regional usage peculiar to rfc.