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AUP /A-U-P/ Abbreviation, "Acceptable Use Policy".
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AUP /A-U-P/
Abbreviation, "Acceptable Use Policy". The
policy of a given ISP which sets out what the ISP considers to be
(un)acceptable uses of its Internet resources.
Related:
Is this acceptable?
ISP /I-S-P/ Common abbreviation for Internet Service Provider, a kind of company that barely existed before 1993.
ISPs sell Internet access to the mass market. While the big nationwide commercial BBSs with Internet access (like America Online, CompuServe, GEnie, Netcom, etc....
As long as people in a society are hungry or out of work or lack the basic skills needed to survive, the use of public resources to support the arts is inappropriate.
and, perhaps, even cruel.when one considers all the potential uses of such money....
ISP Increment and Skip on Pi
hrowaway account n. 1. An inexpensive Internet account purchased on a legitimate ISP for the the sole purpose of spewing spam.
2. An inexpensive Internet account obtained for the sole purpose of doing something which requires a valid email address but being able to ignore spam since the user will not look at the account again....
BBS /B-B-S/ n. [common; abbreviation, `Bulletin Board System'] An electronic bulletin board system
hat is, a message database where people can log in and leave broadcast messages for others grouped (typically) into topic groups....
FRS // n.,obs. Abbreviation for "Freely Redistributable Software" which entered general use on the Internet in 1995 after years of low-level confusion over what exactly to call software written to be passed around and shared (contending terms including freeware
hareware, and `sourceware' were never universally felt to be satisfactory for various subtle reasons)....
Sainthood is acceptable only in saints.
Honesty is the worst policy (is this MR policy?)