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UDP /U-D-P/ V.,n. [Usenet] Abbreviation For Usenet Death Penalty.
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UDP /U-D-P/ v.,n.
[Usenet] Abbreviation for Usenet Death Penalty. Common (probably now more so tha
and frequently verbed. Compare IDP.
Related:
IDP /I-D-P/ v.,n. [Usenet] Abbreviation for Internet Death Penalty.
Common (probably now more so and frequently verbed. Compare UDP....
Usenet Death Penalty [Usenet] A sanction against sites that habitually spew Usenet spam.
This can be either passive or active. A passive UDP refers to the dropping of all postings by a particular domain so as to inhibit propagation....
Internet Death Penalty [Usenet] (often abbreviated IDP) The ultimate sanction against spam-emitting sites - complete shunning at the router level of all mail and packe
as well as Usenet messages, from the offending domain(s). Compare Usenet Death Penalty, w...
PD /P-D/ adj. [common] Abbreviation for `public domain', applied to software distributed over Usenet and from Internet archive sites.
Much of this software is not in fact public domain in the legal sense but travels under various copyrights granting reproduction and use rights to anyone who can snarf a copy....
YMMV // cav. Abbreviation for Your mileage may vary common on Usenet.
PFY n. [Usenet; common] Abbreviation for `Pimply-Faced Youth'.
A BOFH in training, esp. one apprenticed to an elder BOFH aged in evil....
boink /boynk/ [Usenet: variously ascribed to the TV series "Cheers" "Moonlighting", and "Soap"] 1.
v. To have sex with; compare bounce, sense 3. (This is mainstream slang....
PHB /P-H-B/ [Usenet; common; rarely spoken] Abbreviation, "Pointy-Haired Boss".
From the Dilbert character, the archetypal halfwitted middle-management type....
hread: n. [USENET, GEnie, CompuServe] Common abbreviation of `topic thread', a more or less continuous chain of postings on a single topic.
To `follow a thread' is to read a series of USENET postings sharing a common subject or (more correctly) which are connected by Reference headers....