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Re: is it still OK to post trolls in this ng?

#709693
From: Nostromo
Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2009 01:48
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Thus spake Gandalf  Parker <gan...@the.dead.ISP.of.Community.net>, 10 Jul
2009 13:10:12 GMT, Anno Domini:

>Nostromo <nos...@forme.org> contributed wisdom to 
>news:0joc551dkuik6k...@4ax.com: 
>
>>>I tend to live-&-work in groups such as this altho I must admit that I
>>>have drudgingly shifted to the WWW world. Its been a LONG time since
>>>anyone paid me to moderate usenet. Forums are much more lucrative in
>>>many ways which helps me to justify my online addiction.
>> 
>> I never would have pegged you as a mercenary sellout Gan. No, really.
>> ;-p 
>
>It was a long slow migration. Mostly fueled by my wife wondering why we pay 
>so much for me to do so little. :)
>
>I didnt sellout TOO much. Mostly I found ways to do what I was doing anyway 
>(keeping forums active, answering wildly variable questions on many 
>subjects, coming up with witty sig lines) and get some piddly little pay 
>from it (paid moderator, commission links on things I was recommending 
>anyway, going into the Print-on-Demand world for designing tshirts and 
>bumperstickers)

Kewl. I wish I could find something not too mentally taxing or draining for
my Mrs to do for cash online (she's chronically ill & can't work) *sigh*.

>Gandalf  Parker
>-- 
>I know its called the World Wide Web
>and I can see just why.
>Today I built my piece of web,
>Im spider now, not fly!

Why do most people still say "WWW" (double-U, double-U, double-U), when
World Wide Web is only 3 syllables...? :)

-- 
Nostromo
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From: Nostromo <nos...@forme.org>
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Subject: Re: is it still OK to post trolls in this ng?
Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2009 11:48:12 +1000
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