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• Ob- /ob/ pref. Obligatory. A piece of netiquette acknowledging that the author has been straying from the newsgroup's charter topic.
  For example, if a posting in alt.sex is a response to a part of someone else's posting that has nothing particularly to do with sex, the author may append `ObSex' (or `Obsex') and toss off a question or vignette about some unusual erotic act....
• Eric Conspiracy: n. A shadowy group of mustachioed hackers named Eric first pinpointed as a sinister conspiracy by an infamous talk.
  bizarre posting ca. 1986; this was doubtless influenced by the numerous `Eric' jokes in the Monty Python oeuvre....
• anity check: n. 1. The act of checking a piece of code (or anything else, e.
  g., a USENET posting) for completely stupid mistakes....
• cross-post: [USENET] vi. To post a single article simultaneously to several newsgroups.
  Distinguished from posting the article repeatedly, once to each newsgroup, which causes people to see it multiple times (which is very bad form)....
• pam vt.,vi.,n. [from "Monty Python's Flying Circus"] 1.
  To crash a program by overrunning a fixed-size buffer with excessively large input data....
• ewsgroup: [USENET] n. One of {USENET}'s huge collection of topic groups or {fora}.
  Usenet groups can be `unmoderated' (anyone can post) or `moderated' (submissions are automatically directed to a moderator, who edits or filters and then posts the results)....
• control-O: vi. "Stop talking." From the character used on some operating systems to abort output but allow the program to keep on running.
  Generally means that you are not interested in hearing anything more from that person, at least on that topic...
• Eric Conspiracy n. A shadowy group of mustachioed hackers named Eric first pinpointed as a sinister conspiracy by an infamous talk.
  bizarre posting ca. 1987; this was doubtless influenced by the numerous `Eric' jokes in the Monty Python oeuvre....
• Dear Emily: I recently read an article that said, "reply by mail, I'll summarize.
  What should I do? -- Doubtful Dear Doubtful: Post your response to the whole net....