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Pain In The Net N. A Flamer.
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pain in the net n.
A flamer.
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pain in the net: n. A {flamer}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary
flamer n. [common] One who habitually flames. Said esp. of obnoxious Usenet personalities.
flamer: n. One who habitually {flame}s. Said esp. of obnoxious {USENET} personalities.
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
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....
jogger, n: An odd sort of person with a thing for pain.
Prevent noise pollution. Gag a Flamer!
asbestos cork award n. Once, long ago at MIT, there was a flamer so consistently obnoxious that another hacker designed
had made, and distributed posters announcing that said flamer had been nominated for the `asbestos cork award'....
asbestos cork award: n. Once, long ago at MIT, there was a {flamer} so consistently obnoxious that another hacker designed
had made, and distributed posters announcing that said flamer had been nominated for the `asbestos cork award'....
B1FF /bif/ [Usenet] (alt. `BIFF') n. The most famous pseudo, and the prototypical newbie.
Articles from B1FF feature all uppercase letters sprinkled liberally with bangs, typos, `cute' misspellings (EVRY BUDY LUVS GOOD OLD BIFF CUZ HE"S A K00L DOOD AN HE RITES REEL AWESUM THINGZ IN CAPITULL LETTRS LIKE THIS!...