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• 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...
• IDP /I-D-P/ v.,n. [Usenet] Abbreviation for Internet Death Penalty.
  Common (probably now more so and frequently verbed. Compare UDP....
• UDP /U-D-P/ v.,n. [Usenet] Abbreviation for Usenet Death Penalty.
  Common (probably now more so tha and frequently verbed. Compare IDP....
• kremvax /krem-vaks/ n. [from the then large number of Usenet VAXen with names of the form foovax] Originally
  a fictitious Usenet site at the Kremlin, announced on April 1, 1984 in a posting ostensibly originated there by Soviet leader Konstantin Chernenko....
• ewsgroup n. [Usenet] One of Usenet's huge collection of topic groups or fora.
  Usenet groups can be `unmoderated' (anyone can post) or `moderated' (submissions are automatically directed to a moderator, who edits or filters and then posts the results)....
• ewsgroup: [USENET] n. One of {USENET}'s huge collection of topic groups or {fora}.
  Usenet groups can be `unmoderated' (anyone can post) or `moderated' (submissions are automatically directed to a moderator, who edits or filters and then posts the results)....
• 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....
• distribution n. 1. A software source tree packaged for distributio
  but see kit. Since about 1996 unqualified use of this term often implies `Linux distribution'....
• distribution: n. 1. A software source tree packaged for distributio
  but see {kit}. 2. A vague term encompassing mailing lists and USENET newsgroups (but not {BBS} {fora})...