:cybercrud: /si:'ber-kruhd/ n. 1. [coined by Ted Nelson]
Obfuscatory tech-talk. Verbiage with a high {MEGO} factor. The
computer equivalent of bureaucratese. 2. Incomprehensible stuff
embedded in email. First there were the "Received" headers that
show how mail flows through systems, then MIME (Multi-purpose
Internet Mail Extensions) headers and part boundaries, and now huge
blocks of hex for PEM (Privacy Enhanced Mail) or PGP (Pretty Good
Privacy) digital signatures and certificates of authenticity. This
stuff all services a purpose and good user interfaces should hide
it, but all too often users are forced to wade through it.
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary
Obfuscatory tech-talk. Verbiage with a high {MEGO} factor. The
computer equivalent of bureaucratese. 2. Incomprehensible stuff
embedded in email. First there were the "Received" headers that
show how mail flows through systems, then MIME (Multi-purpose
Internet Mail Extensions) headers and part boundaries, and now huge
blocks of hex for PEM (Privacy Enhanced Mail) or PGP (Pretty Good
Privacy) digital signatures and certificates of authenticity. This
stuff all services a purpose and good user interfaces should hide
it, but all too often users are forced to wade through it.
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary
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- cybercrud /si:'ber-kruhd/ n.
1. [coined by Ted Nelson]
Obfuscatory tech-talk
Verbiage with a high MEGO factor. The computer... - 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... - sitename: /si:t'naym/ [UNIX/Internet] n. The unique electronic
name of a computer system
used to identify it in UUCP mail, USENET, or other... - postmaster: n. The email contact and maintenance person at a site
connected to the Internet or UUCPNET
Often, but not always, the same as the {admin}.... - Shub-Internet /shuhb' in't*r-net/ n.
[MUD: from
H
P. Lovecraft's evil fictional deity Shub-Niggurath... - network, the: n. 1. The union of all the major noncommercial
academic, and hacker-oriented networks, such as Internet... - pseudo: /soo'doh/ [USENET: truncation of `pseudonym'] n
1. An electronic-mail or {USENET} persona adopted... - Shub-Internet: /shuhb in't*r-net/ [MUD: from H. P. Lovecraft's
evil fictional deity `Shub-Niggurath'
the Black Goat with a Thousand Young] n. The harsh...
