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P-mail: N. Physical Mail, As Opposed To {email}. Synonymous With {snail-mail}.
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:P-mail: n. Physical mail, as opposed to {email}. Synonymous
with {snail-mail}.
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary
Related:
P-mail n. [rare] Physical mail, as opposed to email.
Synonymous with snail-mail, but much less common....
ail-mail: n. Paper mail, as opposed to electronic.
Sometimes written as the single word `SnailMail'....
ail-mail n. Paper mail, as opposed to electronic.
Sometimes written as the single word `SnailMail'....
ail: vt. To {snail-mail} something. "Snail me a copy of those graphics, will you?
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
email: /ee'mayl/ (also written `e-mail') 1. n. Electronic mail automatically passed through computer networks and/or via modems over common-carrier lines.
Contrast {snail-mail}, {paper-net}, {voice-net}....
paper-net: n. Hackish way of referring to the postal service, analogizing it to a very slow, low-reliability network.
USENET {sig block}s sometimes include a "Paper-Ne...
voice-net: n. Hackish way of referring to the telephone system, analogizing it to a digital network.
USENET {sig block}s not uncommonly include the sender's phone next to a "Voice...
postmaster: n. The email contact and maintenance person at a site connected to the Internet or UUCPNET.
Often, but not always, the same as the {admin}....
cybercrud: /si:'ber-kruhd/ n. 1. [coined by Ted Nelson] Obfuscatory tech-talk.
Verbiage with a high {MEGO} factor. The computer equivalent of bureaucratese....