Is lurking a healthy trend?

[stan haskins]

Originally Posted by David Powell

If you posted anything on any forum, you gave away your IP address and if a hacker was also lurking you could get knocked off the web and they could cause your machine to crash or lock up. Various Windows defense programs started showing up and getting popular. All kinds of software firewalls, and various hacker attack programs that tried to out do them. So when I see someone who is using "Who is" and getting into all the web hacker jargon, such as "I'm in danger of giving up my lurker status" posting on a web forum and making hacker-like threats, I just kind of smile and go on about my business;-

This is the most perceptive thing I've read in ages.