: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. Oppose {email}.
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary
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. Oppose {email}.
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary
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. 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... - P-mail n.
[rare] Physical mail, as opposed to email.
Synonymous with snail-mail, but much less common... - 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... - snail: vt. To {snail-mail} something. "Snail me a copy of those
graphics,
will you?" -- The AI Hackers... - paper-net n.
Hackish way of referring to the postal
service,
analogizing it to a very slow, low-reliability network... - email /ee'mayl/
(also written `e-mail' and `E-mail')
1.
n. Electronic mail automatically passed through computer...
