So, either this was a troll or a poor choice of words in the poster's
second language. Seems like it really was the latter. If the former,
there are no lack of 'trolling' horror stories (yes, in the fishing
sense). I saw a poster in a ISP forum who replied to disgruntled
customers of the forum's vendor that they were wasting their time! When
someone asked what he was doing there, he said that he came to research
one of the vendor's products, and concluded that it was not the product
to buy. He never replied to invitations to leave, but never left. I
expect to hear about that guy on the 6 o'clock news someday. Some people
will do stranger things to get attention...

As for MPE and OO, I am excited about the OO appendix to the ANSI 97
COBOL standard. When COBOL 97 ships, someone will probably sell some
books. Me, I already have my 'OO for COBOL programmers' book. Calls to
objects costs performance, but improve standardization by giving just
one method to access a given record.

Gotta go. Time to get back to finding which program is writing only 388
bytes to a 389 byte record, then figure out why, and what to do to fix
the file...

>----------
>From:  Jim Phillips[SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
>Sent:  Wednesday, March 12, 1997 8:28 AM
>To:    [log in to unmask]
>Subject:       Re: [HP3000-L] Troll
>
>On Tue, 11 Mar 1997 22:14:45 -5, "James B. Byrne" <[log in to unmask]>
>writes:
>
>>> Date:    Mon, 10 Mar 1997 09:12:53 PDT
>>> From:    Mark Klein <[log in to unmask]>
>>> Subject: Re: Job
>>>
>>> Oh yeah? Who says? HP recently announced their current five year plan for
>>>the
>>>
>>
>>You too have been trolled.  I was quite impressed with the
>>restraint of the list membership when confronted with such an
>>obvious baited hook.
>>
>>Regards,
>>Jim
>
>I assume you mean "trolled" as in the fishing sense, and not "troll"ed as
>in the mythical creature sense.  I've never heard that term before.  Does
>it mean that the original poster was trolling for flames?  Interesting
>concept!
>
>Anyway, I also assume you mean that he (the original poster) was not
>serious in his original post.  If that *is* your assumption, then I beg
>to disagree with you.  I replied to the list and also to the original
>poster, and I received a reply from him:
>
>>And what do you think about MPE.
>>
>>HP company is great and that is not the point right now, we talk about MPE.
>>
>>For my English syntax, excuse-me! But if I write in French, would you
>>understand me?
>
>So, either he is serious about his original post, or you are correct, and
>he is "trolling", but I think he's rather going to extremes, don't you?
>All this trouble for what?  To get flamed?  Anyway, I've wasted enough
>bandwidth on him!
>
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>