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Kiboze V. [Usenet] To Grep The Usenet News For A String, Especially With The Intention Of Posting A Follow-up.
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kiboze v.
[Usenet] To grep the Usenet news for a string,
especially with the intention of posting a follow-up. This
activity was popularised by Kibo (see KIBO, sense 2).
Related:
kiboze: [USENET] v. To {grep} the USENET news for a string, especially with the intention of posting a follow-up.
This activity was popularised by Kibo (see {KIBO}, sense 2). -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
kibozo /ki:-boh'zoh/ n. [Usenet] One who kibozes but is not Kibo (see KIBO, sense 2).
despew /d*-spyoo'/ v. [Usenet] To automatically generate a large amount of garbage to the net, esp.
from an automated posting program gone wild. See ARMM....
The Usenet news is out of date
despew: /d*-spyoo'/ [USENET] v. To automatically generate a large amount of garbage to the net, esp.
from an automated posting program gone wild. See {ARMM}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
followup n. [common] On Usenet, a posting generated in response to another posting (as opposed to a reply, which goes by email rather than being broadcast).
Followups include the ID of the parent message in their heade...
followup: n. On USENET, a {posting} generated in response to another posting (as opposed to a {reply}, which goes by email rather than being broadcast).
Followups include the ID of the {parent message} in their heade...
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....
ot13 /rot ther'teen/ n.,v. [Usenet: from `rotate alphabet 13 places'] The simple Caesar-cypher encryption that replaces each English letter with the one 13 places forward or back along the alphabe
o that "The butler did it!" becomes "Gur ohgyre qvq vg!...