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• line eater, the n. obs. [Usenet] 1. A bug in some now-obsolete versions of the netnews software that used to eat up to BUFSIZ bytes of the article text.
  The bug was triggered by having the text of the article start with a space or tab....
• NSA line eater n. The National Security Agency trawling program sometimes assumed to be reading the net for the U.
  S. Government's spooks. Most hackers used to think it was mythical but believed in acting as though existed just in case....
• bug n. An unwanted and unintended property of a program or piece of hardware, esp.
  one that causes it to malfunction. Antonym of feature....
• TECO /tee'koh/ n.,v. obs. 1. [originally an acronym for `[paper] Tape Editor and COrrector'
  later, `Text Editor and COrrector'] n. A text editor developed at MIT and modified by just about everybody....
• phase of the moon n. Used humorously as a random parameter on which something is said to depend.
  Sometimes implies unreliability of whatever is dependent, or that reliability seems to be dependent on conditions nobody has been able to determine....
• 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....
• frogging: [University of Waterloo] v. 1. Partial corruption of a text file or input stream by some bug or consistent glitch, as opposed to random events like line noise or media failures.
  Might occur, for example, if one bit of each incoming character on a tty were stuck, so that some characters were correct and others were not....
• What a quiche-eater you are!
• plat: n. 1. Name used in many places (DEC, IBM, and others) for the asterisk (`*') character (ASCII 0101010).
  This may derive from the `squashed-bug' appearance of the asterisk on many early line printers....