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Flood V. [common; IRC] To Dump Large Amounts Of Text Onto An IRC Channel.
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flood v.
[common; IRC] To dump large amounts of text
onto an IRC channel. This is especially rude when the text is
uninteresting and the other users are trying to carry on a serious
conversation. Also used in a similar sense on Usenet.
Related:
flood: [IRC] v. To dump large amounts of text onto an {IRC} channel.
This is especially rude when the text is uninteresting and the other users are trying to carry on a serious conversation....
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....
kick: [IRC] v. To cause somebody to be removed from a {IRC} channel, an option only available to {CHOP}s.
This is an extreme measure, often used to combat extreme {flamage} or {flood}ing, but sometimes used at the chop's whim....
bot n [common on IRC, MUD and among gamers; from `robot'] 1.
An IRC or MUD user who is actually a program. On IRC, typically the robot provides some useful service....
obot: [IRC, MUD] n. An {IRC} or {MUD} user who is actually a program.
On IRC, typically the robot provides some useful service....
kick v. [IRC] To cause somebody to be removed from a IRC channel, an option only available to channel ops.
This is an extreme measure, often used to combat extreme flamage or flooding, but sometimes used at the CHOP's whim....
mailbomb (also mail bomb) [Usenet] 1. v. To send, or urge others to send, massive amounts of email to a single system or person, esp.
with intent to crash or spam the recipient's system....
mailbomb: (also mail bomb) [USENET] 1. v. To send, or urge others to send, massive amounts of {email} to a single system or person, esp.
with intent to crash or {spam} the recipient's system....
profile: n. 1. A control file for a program, esp. a text file automatically read from each user's home directory and intended to be easily modified by the user in order to customize the program's behavior.
Used to avoid {hardcoded} choices (see also {dot file}, {rc file})....