followup n.
[common] On Usenet, a posting
generated in response to another posting (as opposed to a
reply, which goes by email rather than being broadcast).
Followups include the ID of the parent message in their
headers; smart news-readers can use this information to present
Usenet news in `conversation' sequence rather than
order-of-arrival. See thread.
[common] On Usenet, a posting
generated in response to another posting (as opposed to a
reply, which goes by email rather than being broadcast).
Followups include the ID of the parent message in their
headers; smart news-readers can use this information to present
Usenet news in `conversation' sequence rather than
order-of-arrival. See thread.
Related:
- followup: n. On USENET, a {posting} generated in response to
another posting (as opposed to a {reply},
which goes by email rather than being broadcast)... - thread n.
[Usenet, GEnie, CompuServe] Common abbreviation
of `topic thread',
a more or less continuous chain of postings on a... - thread: n. [USENET, GEnie, CompuServe] Common abbreviation of
`topic thread',
a more or less continuous chain of postings on a ... - rot13 /rot ther'teen/ n.,v.
[Usenet: from `rotate
alphabet 13 places'] The simple Caesar-cypher encryption that
replaces each English letter with the one 13 places forward or back
along the alphabet,
so that "The butler did it!" becomes "Gur ohgyre... - ARMM n.
[acronym, `Automated Retroactive Minimal
Moderation'] A Usenet cancelbot created by Dick Depew of Munroe Falls,
Ohio. ARMM was intended to automatically cancel posts... - posting n.
Noun corresp. to v. post (but note that
post can be nouned).
Distinguished from a `letter' or ordinary email... - posting: n. Noun corresp. to v. {post} (but note that
{post} can be nouned).
Distinguished from a `letter' or ordinary {email}... - read-only user n.
Describes a luser who uses computers
almost exclusively for reading Usenet,
bulletin boards, and/or email, rather than writing... - rot13: /rot ther'teen/ [USENET: from `rotate alphabet
13 places'] n.
v. The simple Caesar-cypher encryption that replaces...
From the same category:
- crudware /kruhd'weir/ n.
Pejorative term for the hundreds
of megabytes of low-quality freeware circulated by user's
groups and BBS systems in the micro-hobbyist world.
"Yet another set... - plokta /plok't*/ v.
[acronym: Press Lots Of Keys To
Abort] To press random keys in an attempt to get some response
from the system.
One might plokta when the abort procedure for a ... - Fortrash /for'trash/ n.
Hackerism for the FORTRAN
(FORmula TRANslator) language,
referring to its primitive design, gross and irregular... - let the smoke out v.
To fry hardware (see fried).
See magic smoke for a discussion of the underlying... - Stone Age n.,adj.
1. In computer folklore, an ill-defined
period from ENIAC (ca.
1943) to the mid-1950s; the great age of electromechanical...
