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AOLamer

An AOLamer or AOL Lamer is a person using AOL that posts flamebait or other Off topic messages in a newsgroup in order to disrupt the newsgroup.

During the early 1990s, many regular non-AOL internet newsgroup users routinely killed all messages coming from AOL as many of the messages coming from AOL were non-informative.

See also: internet troll

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