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OTOH // [Usenet; Very Common] On The Other Hand.
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OTOH //
[Usenet; very common] On The Other Hand.
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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....
HAND // [Usenet: very common] Abbreviation: Have A Nice Day.
Typically used to close a Usenet posting, but also used to informally close email...
flamage /flay'm*j/ n. [very common] Flaming verbiage, esp.
high-noise, low-signal postings to Usenet or other electronic fora....
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....
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....
alk mode n. A feature supported by Unix, ITS, and some other OSes that allows two or more logged-in users to set up a real-time on-line conversation.
It combines the immediacy of talking with all the precision (and verbosity) that written language entails....
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....
print v. To output, even if to a screen. If a hacker says that a program "printed a message", he means thi
if he refers to printing a file, he probably means it in the conventional sense of writing to a hardcopy device (compounds like `print job' and `printout', on the other hand, always refer to the latter)....
YMMV // cav. Abbreviation for Your mileage may vary common on Usenet.