Re: re: lurkers

Autmirislvr@aol.com wrote:
In a message dated 1/20/2004 10:14:14 PM Central Standard Time, thelockmans@tntie.com writes:


Thank you all and I'm
sorry if my lurking makes you feel uncomfortable, I don't mean any harm.

No! Never!
It's a term that was a part of the Internet when I came on line in 1997. Long before I became a part of this list going into 1999. Another term I saw at that time was 'lofters' but it did not grow in popularity as did 'lurkers' and may have only been popular in the writing groups I frequented at that time.

Betty W. in South-central KY Zone 6

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FWIW : The term "lurker" was used on the Intranets before they were interfaced into the Internet. Shorthand for phases such as For What Its Worth helped when text messages were were limited to 256 charecters...

I don't recall any answer to Linda M's question other than the phrase "Stop hogging the net".

"lofter" or e-lurker are certainly nicer words.

Michael, a survivor of the pain of IBM keypunch machines and 4 decades of "netting"

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