Bernardo B. Terrado[SMTP:bbt@mudspring.uplb.edu.ph]

It's funny, some of the mails sent by some mailers are being referred by some as a troll. WHY?

It is a variant spelling of the word "trawl" - a large fishing net dragged behind a ship ("trawler") to catch lots of fish (and prawns and shrimps and dolphins and seals and turtles and penguins...) So it is a message sent out in the hope of catching lots of replies, maybe to get email addresses for a mailing list or just for the fun of starting a flame war. For example, if I posted my real opinion of the US conservative attitude to guns, abortion, race, socialism or the Bell Curve here, I would be trawling. Sorry, trolling. Not to mention breaking my employers rules about using email for flames or political comment. So I won't. From this id at any rate :-) The word is used in other contexts - for example in the British Civil Service an internal job ad circulated to many offices is called a "trawl". Ken