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• ewbie /n[y]oo'bee/ n. [verry common; orig. from British public-school and military slang variant of `new boy'] A Usenet neophyte.
  This term surfaced in the newsgroup talk.bizarre but is now in wide use....
• ewbie: /n[y]oo'bee/ n. [orig. from British public-school and military slang variant of `new boy'] A USENET neophyte.
  This term surfaced in the {newsgroup} talk.bizarre but is now in wide use....
• ewgroup wars /n[y]oo'groop worz/ n. [Usenet] The salvos of dueling newgroup and rmgroup messages sometimes exchanged by persons on opposite sides of a dispute over whether a newsgroup should be created net-wide
  or (even more frequently) whether an obsolete one should be removed....
• gnubie /noo'bee/ n. Written-only variant of newbie in common use on IRC channels, which implies specifically someone who is new to the Linux/open source/free software world.
• FAQ list /F-A-Q list/ or /fak list/ n. [common; Usenet] Syn FAQ, sense 2.
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• ewgroup wars: /n[y]oo'groop worz/ [USENET] n. The salvos of dueling `newgroup' and `rmgroup' messages sometimes exchanged by persons on opposite sides of a dispute over whether a {newsgroup} should be created net-wide
  or (even more frequently) whether an obsolete one should be removed....
• bboard /bee'bord/ n. [contraction of `bulletin board'] 1.
  Any electronic bulletin board; esp. used of BBS systems running on personal micros, less frequently of a Usenet newsgroup (in fact, use of this term for a newsgroup generally marks one either as a newbie fresh in from the BBS world or as a real old-timer predating Usenet)....
• bboard: /bee'bord/ [contraction of `bulletin board'] n.
  1. Any electronic bulletin board; esp. used of {BBS} systems running on personal micros, less frequently of a USENET {newsgroup} (in fact, use of this term for a newsgroup generally marks one either as a {newbie} fresh in from the BBS world or as a real old-timer predating USENET)....