:biff: /bif/ vt. To notify someone of incoming mail. From the
BSD utility `biff(1)', which was in turn named after a
friendly golden Labrador who used to chase frisbees in the halls at
UCB while 4.2BSD was in development (it had a well-known habit of
barking whenever the mailman came). No relation to
{BIFF}.
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary
BSD utility `biff(1)', which was in turn named after a
friendly golden Labrador who used to chase frisbees in the halls at
UCB while 4.2BSD was in development (it had a well-known habit of
barking whenever the mailman came). No relation to
{BIFF}.
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary
Related:
- biff /bif/ vt.
To notify someone of incoming mail.
From the BSD utility biff(1), which was in turn... - BIFF: /bif/ [USENET] n. The most famous {pseudo}, and the
prototypical {newbie}.
Articles from BIFF are characterized by all uppercase... - pseudo: /soo'doh/ [USENET: truncation of `pseudonym'] n.
1. An electronic-mail or {USENET} persona adopted... - A is for awk, which runs like a snail, and
B is for biff,
which reads all your mail. C is for cc, as hackers... - newbie: /n[y]oo'bee/ n. [orig. from British public-school and
military slang variant of `new boy'] A USENET neophyte.
This term surfaced in the {newsgroup} talk.bizarre... - rave: [WPI] vi. 1. To persist in discussing a specific subject.
2. To speak authoritatively on a subject about which... - warlording: [from the USENET group alt.fan.warlord] v.
The act of excoriating a bloated, ugly, or derivative... - B1FF /bif/ [Usenet] (alt. `BIFF') n.
The most famous
pseudo,
and the prototypical newbie. Articles from B1FF ... - doubled sig: [USENET] n. A {sig block} that has been included
twice in a {USENET} article or,
less commonly, in an electronic mail message. An...
From the same category:
- the sea squirt, when young, seeks a rock to which it can anchor
itself.
Once it finds a rock, it will stay there the rest of... - earth is 98% full ...
please delete anyone you can... - Copyright (c) 1993 All rights
reserved.... - Yeah, right!
--
Famous Last... - Adam was but human -- this explains it all. He did not want the apple for
the apple's sake,
he wanted it only because it was forbidden. -- Mark...
