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• wheel wars: [Stanford University] A period in {larval stage} during which student hackers hassle each other by attempting to log each other out of the system
  delete each other's files, and otherwise wreak havoc, usually at the expense of the lesser users....
• BBS /B-B-S/ n. [common; abbreviation, `Bulletin Board System'] An electronic bulletin board system
  hat is, a message database where people can log in and leave broadcast messages for others grouped (typically) into topic groups....
• ARMM n. [acronym, `Automated Retroactive Minimal Moderation'] A Usenet cancelbot created by Dick Depew of Munroe Falls, Ohio.
  ARMM was intended to automatically cancel posts from anonymous-posting sites....
• BBS: /B-B-S/ [abbreviation, `Bulletin Board System'] n.
  An electronic bulletin board system; that is, a message database where people can log in and leave broadcast messages for others grouped (typically) into {topic group}s....
• When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other. HOFFER
• A car and a truck approaching each other on an otherwise deserted road will meet at the narrow bridge.
  -- Quigley's Law...
• Hacking X for Y n. [ITS] Ritual phrasing of part of the information which ITS made publicly available about each user.
  This information (the INQUIR record) was a sort of form in which the user could fill out various fields....
• aga n. [WPI] A cuspy but bogus raving story about N random broken people.
  Here is a classic example of the saga form, as told by Guy L....
• burn-in period: n. 1. A factory test designed to catch systems with {marginal} components before they get out the doo
  he theory is that burn-in will protect customers by outwaiting the steepest part of the {bathtub curve} (see {infant mortality})....