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• BIFF: /bif/ [USENET] n. The most famous {pseudo}, and the prototypical {newbie}.
  Articles from BIFF are characterized by all uppercase letters sprinkled liberally with bangs, typos, `cute' misspellings (EVRY BUDY LUVS GOOD OLD BIFF CUZ HE"S A K00L DOOD AN HE RITES REEL AWESUM THINGZ IN CAPITULL LETTRS LIKE THIS!...
• doubled sig [Usenet] n. A sig block that has been included twice in a Usenet article or, less commonly, in an electronic mail message.
  An article or message with a doubled sig can be caused by improperly configured software....
• biff /bif/ vt. To notify someone of incoming mail.
  From the BSD utility biff(1), which was in turn named after a friendly dog who used to chase frisbees in the halls at UCB while 4....
• ewbie /n[y]oo'bee/ n. [verry common; orig. from British public-school and military slang variant of `new boy'] A Usenet neophyte.
  This term surfaced in the newsgroup talk.bizarre but is now in wide use....
• doubled sig: [USENET] n. A {sig block} that has been included twice in a {USENET} article or, less commonly, in an electronic mail message.
  An article or message with a doubled sig can be caused by improperly configured software....
• BITNET /bit'net/ n., obs. [acronym: Because It's Time NETwork] Everybody's least favorite piece of the network (see the network) - until AOL happened.
  The BITNET hosts were a collection of IBM dinosaurs and VAXen (the latter with lobotomized comm hardware) that communicate using 80-character EBCDIC card images (see eighty-column mind)...
• pseudo /soo'doh/ n. [Usenet: truncation of `pseudonym'] 1.
  An electronic-mail or Usenet persona adopted by a human for amusement value or as a means of avoiding negative repercussions of one's net....
• 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....