creeper = lurker

Amy West medievalist at W-STS.COM
Sun Mar 28 14:30:08 UTC 2010


My friend in Minnesota has a 13-year-old girl and they use "creeper"
differently than my Worcester, MA kids do:

>Susan calls a person that just reads [an online discussion/e-mail
>list] and not participate a creeper, we use to call it a lurker, so
>what ever, I am reading what you write.  It is hard for me and when
>I am out and about I get the digest in my e-mail, I lurk and go.
>Love you guys, Going to the university to talk to registration for
>Susan, Thanks to who ever wrote that.
>Laural

---Amy West

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