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  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!...
• Breidbart Index /bri:d'bart ind*ks/ A measurement of the severity of spam invented by long-time hacker Seth Breidbart, used for programming cancelbots.
  The Breidbart Index takes into account the fact that excessive multi-posting EMP is worse than excessive cross-posting ECP....
• et.personality /net per`sn-al'-*-tee/ n. Someone who has made a name for him or herself on Usene
  hrough either longevity or attention-getting posts, but doesn't meet the other requirements of net....
• ock puppet n. [Usenet: from the act of placing a sock over your hand and talking to it and pretending it's talking back] In Usenet parlance
  a pseudo through which the puppeteer posts follow-ups to their own original message to give the appearance that a number of people support the views held in the original message....
• As part of an ongoing effort to keep you, the Fortune reader, abreast of the valuable information the daily crosses the USENET, Fortune prese
  News articles that answer *your* questions, #1: Newsgroup...
• By the time of the Great Renaming, net.suicide, along with net.
  umors, was mainly populated by refugees from net.bizarre, which was the first popular group ever dropped by the backbone....
• opic drift n. Term used on GEnie, Usenet and other electronic fora to describe the tendency of a thread to drift away from the original subject of discussion (and thu
  from the Subject header of the originating message), or the results of that tendency....
• Original quip on the space telescope we all like so much.
  A few articles were posted in sci.astro.hubble but nobody could read them....
• If you reread your work, you will find on rereading that a great deal of repetition can be avoided by rereading and editing.