domainist /doh-mayn'ist/ adj.
1. [Usenet, by pointed
analogy with "sexist", "racist", etc.] Someone who judges
people by the domain of their email addresses; esp. someone who
dismisses anyone who posts from a public internet provider. "What
do you expect from an article posted from aol.com?" 2. Said of an
Internet address (as opposed to a bang path) becau
part to the right of the @ specifies a nested series of
`domains'; for example, esr@snark.thyrsus.com specifies
the machine called snark in the subdomain called thyrsus
within the top-level domain called com. See also
big-endian, sense 2.
The meaning of this term has drifted. At one time sense 2 was
primary. In elder days it was also used of a site, mailer, or
routing program which knew how to handle domainist addresses; or of
a person (esp. a site admin) who preferred domain addressing,
supported a domainist mailer, or proselytized for domainist
addressing and disdained bang paths. These senses are now
(1996) obsolete, as effectively all sites have converted.
1. [Usenet, by pointed
analogy with "sexist", "racist", etc.] Someone who judges
people by the domain of their email addresses; esp. someone who
dismisses anyone who posts from a public internet provider. "What
do you expect from an article posted from aol.com?" 2. Said of an
Internet address (as opposed to a bang path) becau
part to the right of the @ specifies a nested series of
`domains'; for example, esr@snark.thyrsus.com specifies
the machine called snark in the subdomain called thyrsus
within the top-level domain called com. See also
big-endian, sense 2.
The meaning of this term has drifted. At one time sense 2 was
primary. In elder days it was also used of a site, mailer, or
routing program which knew how to handle domainist addresses; or of
a person (esp. a site admin) who preferred domain addressing,
supported a domainist mailer, or proselytized for domainist
addressing and disdained bang paths. These senses are now
(1996) obsolete, as effectively all sites have converted.
Related:
- domainist: /doh-mayn'ist/ adj. 1. Said of an {{Internet
address}} (as opposed to a {bang path}) because the part to the
right of the `@' specifies a nested series of `domains';
for example, esr@snark.thyrsus.com specifies the machine... - Internet address n.
1. [techspeak] An absolute network
address of the form foo@bar.baz,
where foo is a user name, bar is a sitename, and... - big-endian adj.
[common; From Swift's "Gulliver's
Travels" via the famous paper "On Holy Wars and a Plea for
Peace" by Danny Cohen,
USC/ISI IEN 137, dated April 1, 1980] 1. Describes... - spam vt.,vi.,n.
[from "Monty Python's Flying
Circus"] 1.
To crash a program by overrunning a fixed-size buffer... - big-endian: [From Swift's "Gulliver's Travels" via the famous
paper "On Holy Wars and a Plea for Peace" by Danny Cohen,
USC/ISI IEN 137, dated April 1, 1980] adj. 1. Describes... - network address: n. (also `net address') As used by hackers,
means an address on `the' network (see {network, the}... - PD /P-D/ adj.
[common] Abbreviation for `public
domain',
applied to software distributed over Usenet and from... - the network n.
1. Historicaslly, the union of all the major
noncommercial,
academic, and hacker-oriented networks, such as ... - network, the: n. 1. The union of all the major noncommercial,
academic, and hacker-oriented networks, such as Internet...
