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 4.2BSD was in development. There was a legend that it
had a habit of barking whenever the mailman came, but the author of
biff says this is not true. No relation to B1FF.
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 4.2BSD was in development. There was a legend that it
had a habit of barking whenever the mailman came, but the author of
biff says this is not true. No relation to B1FF.
Related:
- biff: /bif/ vt. To notify someone of incoming mail.
From the BSD utility `biff(1)', which was in turn... - B1FF /bif/ [Usenet] (alt. `BIFF') n.
The most famous
pseudo,
and the prototypical newbie. Articles from B1FF ... - BIFF: /bif/ [USENET] n. The most famous {pseudo}, and the
prototypical {newbie}.
Articles from BIFF are characterized by all uppercase... - A is for awk, which runs like a snail, and
B is for biff,
which reads all your mail. C is for cc, as hackers... - pseudo: /soo'doh/ [USENET: truncation of `pseudonym'] n.
1. An electronic-mail or {USENET} persona adopted... - kluge /klooj/
[from the German `klug', clever; poss.
related to Polish `klucz' (a key, a hint, a main point)]... - 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... - if (dog_bark == TRUE) mailman ==
present... - newbie: /n[y]oo'bee/ n. [orig. from British public-school and
military slang variant of `new boy'] A USENET neophyte.
This term surfaced in the {newsgroup} talk.bizarre...
