snail-mail n.
Paper mail, as opposed to electronic.
Sometimes written as the single word `SnailMail'. One's postal
address is, correspondingly, a `snail address'. Derives from
earlier coinage `USnail' (from `U.S. Mail'), for which
there have even been parody posters and stamps made. Also (less
commonly) called `P-mail', from `paper mail' or `physical mail'.
Oppose email.
Paper mail, as opposed to electronic.
Sometimes written as the single word `SnailMail'. One's postal
address is, correspondingly, a `snail address'. Derives from
earlier coinage `USnail' (from `U.S. Mail'), for which
there have even been parody posters and stamps made. Also (less
commonly) called `P-mail', from `paper mail' or `physical mail'.
Oppose email.
Related:
- snail-mail: n. Paper mail, as opposed to electronic.
Sometimes written as the single word `SnailMail'... - email: /ee'mayl/ (also written `e-mail') 1. n. Electronic mail
automatically passed through computer networks and/or via modems
over common-carrier lines.
Contrast {snail-mail}, {paper-net}, {voice-net}... - P-mail n.
[rare] Physical mail, as opposed to email.
Synonymous with snail-mail, but much less common... - P-mail: n. Physical mail, as opposed to {email}. Synonymous
with {snail-mail}.
The AI Hackers... - paper-net: n. Hackish way of referring to the postal service,
analogizing it to a very slow, low-reliability network... - You know you've been hacking too long when...
...you get snail mail,
and you think to your self "You have new mail on node... - email /ee'mayl/
(also written `e-mail' and `E-mail')
1.
n. Electronic mail automatically passed through computer... - paper-net n.
Hackish way of referring to the postal
service,
analogizing it to a very slow, low-reliability network... - You know you've been hacking too long when...
...you check your email more often than your paper mail,
and you remember your network address faster than your...
From the same category:
- ware suff.
[from `software'] Commonly used to form
jargon terms for classes of software.
For examples, see annoyware, careware, crippleware... - mung /muhng/ vt.
[in 1960 at MIT, `Mash Until No Good';
sometime after that the derivation from the recursive... - XXX /X-X-X/ n.
A marker that attention is needed.
Commonly used in program comments to indicate areas... - gritch /grich/
[MIT] 1. n. A complaint (often caused by a
glitch).
2. vi. To complain. Often verb-doubled: "Gritch ... - no-op /noh'op/ n.,v.
alt. NOP /nop/ [no
operation] 1.
A machine instruction that does nothing (sometimes...
