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Despew /d*-spyoo'/ V. [Usenet] To Automatically Generate A Large Amount Of Garbage To The Net, Esp.
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despew /d*-spyoo'/ v.
[Usenet] To automatically generate
a large amount of garbage to the net, esp. from an automated
posting program gone wild. See ARMM.
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despew: /d*-spyoo'/ [USENET] v. To automatically generate a large amount of garbage to the net, esp.
from an automated posting program gone wild. See {ARMM}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
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....
pam vt.,vi.,n. [from "Monty Python's Flying Circus"] 1.
To crash a program by overrunning a fixed-size buffer with excessively large input data....
lint: [from UNIX's `lint(1)', named for the bits of fluff it supposedly picks from programs] 1.
vt. To examine a program closely for style, language usage, and portability problems, esp....
lint [from Unix's lint(1), named for the bits of fluff it supposedly picks from programs] 1.
vt. To examine a program closely for style, language usage, and portability problems, esp....
prettyprint: /prit'ee-print/ (alt. `pretty-print') v.
1. To generate `pretty' human-readable output from a {hairy} internal representatio...
prettyprint /prit'ee-print/ v. (alt. `pretty-print') 1.
To generate `pretty' human-readable output from a hairy internal representatio...
kiboze v. [Usenet] To grep the Usenet news for a string, especially with the intention of posting a follow-up.
This activity was popularised by Kibo (see KIBO, sense 2)....
infinite adj. [common] Consisting of a large number of objec
extreme. Used very loosely as in: "This program produces infinite garbage....