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• fool file, the: [USENET] n. A notional repository of all the most dramatically and abysmally stupid utterances ever.
  An entire subgenre of {sig block}s consists of the header "From the fool file...
• ig block /sig blok/ n. [Unix; often written `.sig' there] Short for `signature'
  used specifically to refer to the electronic signature block that most Unix mail- and news-posting software will automagically append to outgoing mail and news....
• ig block: /sig blok/ [UNIX; often written `.sig' there] n.
  Short for `signature', used specifically to refer to the electronic signature block that most UNIX mail- and news-posting software will {automagically} append to outgoing mail and news....
• Quote #85 While clearing out my file cabinet, I uncovered the following, which struck me as relevant to a lot of what goes on in comp.
  isks. Quoted from a paper, 'The Emperor's Old Clothes', by Charles Antony Richard Hoare, published in CACM Feb 1981...
• include vt. [Usenet] 1. To duplicate a portion (or whole) of another's message (typically with attribution to the source) in a reply or followup, for clarifying the context of one's response.
  See the discussion of inclusion styles under "Hacker Writing Style"....
• kill file n. [Usenet; very common] (alt. `KILL file') Per-user file(s) used by some Usenet reading programs (originally Larry Wall's rn(1)) to discard summarily (without presenting for reading) articles matching some particularly uninteresting (or unwanted) patterns of subjec
  author, or other header lines. Thus to add a person (or subject) to one's kill file is to arrange for that person to be ignored by one's newsreader in future....
• kremvax /krem-vaks/ n. [from the then large number of Usenet VAXen with names of the form foovax] Originally
  a fictitious Usenet site at the Kremlin, announced on April 1, 1984 in a posting ostensibly originated there by Soviet leader Konstantin Chernenko....
• idempotent adj. [from mathematical techspeak] Acting as if used only once, even if used multiple times.
  This term is often used with respect to C header files, which contain common definitions and declarations to be included by several source files....
• idempotent: [from mathematical techspeak] adj. Acting as if used only once, even if used multiple times.
  This term is often used with respect to {C} header files, which contain common definitions and declarations to be included by several source files....