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HAND // [Usenet: Very Common] Abbreviation: Have A Nice Day.
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HAND //
[Usenet: very common] Abbreviation: Have A Nice
Day. Typically used to close a Usenet posting, but also used
to informally close emails; often preceded by HTH.
Related:
HTH // [Usenet: very common] Abbreviation: Hope This Helps (e.
g. following a response to a technical question). Often used just before HAND. See also YHBT....
YHBT // [Usenet: very common] Abbreviation: You Have Been Trolled (see troll, sense 1).
Especially used in "YHBT. YHL. HAND.", which is widely understood to expand to "You Have Been Trolled....
OTOH // [Usenet; very common] On The Other Hand.
MMF // [Usenet; common] Abbreviation: "Make Money Fast".
Refers to any kind of scheme which promises participants large profits with little or no risk or effort....
DoS attack // [Usenet; note that it's unrelated to `DOS' as name of an operating system] Abbreviation for Denial-Of-Service attack.
This abbreviation is most often used of attempts to shut down newsgroups with floods of spam....
ASCII /as'kee/ n. [originally an acronym (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) but now merely conventional] The predominant character set encoding of present-day computers.
The standard version uses 7 bits for each character, whereas most earlier codes (including early drafts of of ASCII prior to June 1961) used fewer....
kill file n. [Usenet; very common] (alt. `KILL file') Per-user file(s) used by some Usenet reading programs (originally Larry Wall's rn(1)) to discard summarily (without presenting for reading) articles matching some particularly uninteresting (or unwanted) patterns of subjec
author, or other header lines. Thus to add a person (or subject) to one's kill file is to arrange for that person to be ignored by one's newsreader in future....
UBD /U-B-D/ n. [abbreviation for `User Brain Damage'] An abbreviation used to close out trouble reports obviously due to utter cluelessness on the user's part.
Compare pilot error; oppose PBD; see also brain-damaged....
UBD: /U-B-D/ [abbreviation for `User Brain Damage'] An abbreviation used to close out trouble reports obviously due to utter cluelessness on the user's part.
Compare {pilot error}; oppose {PBD}; see also {brain-damaged}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...