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• 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})...
• kit: [USENET; poss. fr. DEC slang for a full software distribution, as opposed to a patch or upgrade] n.
  A source software distribution that has been packaged in such a way that it can (theoretically) be unpacked and installed according to a series of steps using only standard UNIX tools, and entirely documented by some reasonable chain of references from the top-level {README file}....
• mailing list n. (often shortened in context to `list') 1.
  An email address that is an alias (or macro, though that word is never used in this connection) for many other email addresses....
• 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....
• kit n. [Usenet; poss. fr. DEC slang for a full software distributio
  as opposed to a patch or upgrade] A source software distribution that has been packaged in such a way that it can (theoretically) be unpacked and installed according to a series of steps using only standard Unix tools, and entirely documented by some reasonable chain of references from the top-level README file....
• opic drift n. Term used on GEnie, Usenet and other electronic fora to describe the tendency of a thread to drift away from the original subject of discussion (and thu
  from the Subject header of the originating message), or the results of that tendency....
• opic drift: n. Term used on GEnie, USENET and other electronic fora to describe the tendency of a {thread} to drift away from the original subject of discussion (and thu
  from the Subject header of the originating message), or the results of that tendency....
• hovelware /shuh'v*l-weir`/ n. 1. Extra software dumped onto a CD-ROM or tape to fill up the remaining space on the medium after the software distribution it's intended to carry
  but not integrated with the distribution. 2. A slipshod compilation of software dumped onto a CD-ROM without much care for organization or even usability....
• alt /awlt/ 1. n. The alt shift key on an IBM PC or clone keyboard
  ee bucky bits, sense 2 (though typical PC usage does not simply set the 0200 bit)....