Mary-Helen sent her response while I was writing this. Verb or noun? Maybe being a 'troll' means that's who you are, 'trolling' is something you've done, maybe once. It's like saying to children that something was unacceptable behaviour, not that they are unacceptable people. Suzana
And what do we call a troll who, once booted off of a list, then resubscribes under a pseudonym, only to be booted off again - but then who manages to resubscribe under still another pseudonym, but this time, despite being recognized as the original troll by many members of the list (because of similar argumentative and rhetorical moves, writing style, etc.), just barely manages to avoid getting booted because he largely remains within the boundaries of proscribed behavior - although he also manages to spam the list with adverts for his own conference? curiously, - charles ess