____/ Mark S Bilk on Thursday 20 March 2008 19:09 : \____
> On Mar 20, 11:42 am, chrisv <chr...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Mark S Bilk wrote:
>> >> Mark S. Bilk is a loony toon's loony.....
>>
>> >Please look at the above websites and decide for yourself, folks.
>>
>> Why are you feeding the worthless troll?
>
> A "troll" (in this context) is a person who posts crap in a newsgroup
> to annoy people and get a rise out of them. These anonymous
> agents posting on behalf of Microsoft are not trolls. They have a
> job to do -- to prevent people from learning about and trying Linux.
>
> They keep posting their lies and ad hominem attacks whether or not
> anyone responds to them, because they are not posting to annoy
> us, they are posting in order to discourage the huge unseen audience
> of people who visit this newsgroup from learning about Linux. Google
> says it has 2342 people "subscribed" to COLA (many of those getting
> the posts mailed do them). That's about 50 to 100 times as many
> people as post here.
>
> For example, the lying Microsoft propagandists (a much more accurate
> term for them than "trolls") attack every one of Roy Schestowitz's
> posts.
> They initiate the attacks, before anyone has responded to them.
>
> People who refute the Microsoft lies do so in order to give accurate
> information to all of the thousands of non-posting readers, some of
> whom are transient visitors who may not realize that Microsoft agents
> have been carrying on their lying propaganda campaign here for
> ten years. So they won't know that Gary Stewart (under whatever
> false name he's using at the time) is trying to deceive them. Unless
> someone posts in response to Gary and refutes his lies.
Thanks for the kind words, Mark.
--
~~ Best of wishes
"The government is not trying to destroy Microsoft, it’s simply seeking to
compel Microsoft to obey the law. It’s quite revealing that Mr. Gates equates
the two."
--Government official
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