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Maus <Greymaus@mail.com> writes:
> I was amazed when I moved from a BBS to usenet, at how `wild' the
> discussion was people would attack you for nno reason, just for fun.
> With the BBS system. if you get such a messae, you could call round to
> the poster to discuss the matter.
>
> With the bbs systems, it cost little to set up a host, but expensive to
> call them. 

... also periodically noticed from 90s on ... if troll wasn't generating
enough for their satisfaction ... they would assume multiple persona
taking different sides trying to draw in as many as possible into
discussion

-- 
virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970