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Post: V. To Send A Message To A {mailing List} Or {newsgroup}.
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:post: v. To send a message to a {mailing list} or {newsgroup}.
Distinguished in context from `mail'; one might ask, for
example: "Are you going to post the patch or mail it to known
users?"
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary
Related:
post v. To send a message to a mailing list or newsgroup.
Distinguished in context from `mail'; one might ask, for example...
posting: n. Noun corresp. to v. {post} (but note that {post} can be nouned).
Distinguished from a `letter' or ordinary {email} message by the fact that it is broadcast rather than point-to-point....
posting n. Noun corresp. to v. post (but note that post can be nouned).
Distinguished from a `letter' or ordinary email message by the fact that it is broadcast rather than point-to-point....
ewsgroup: [USENET] n. One of {USENET}'s huge collection of topic groups or {fora}.
Usenet groups can be `unmoderated' (anyone can post) or `moderated' (submissions are automatically directed to a moderator, who edits or filters and then posts the results)....
cross-post: [USENET] vi. To post a single article simultaneously to several newsgroups.
Distinguished from posting the article repeatedly, once to each newsgroup, which causes people to see it multiple times (which is very bad form)....
How many AOL users -- does it take to change a light bulb?
Eleven. One to ask to be on the light bulb gif mailing list, nine to say "ME TOO!...
pam: [from the {MUD} community] vt. 1. To crash a program by overrunning a fixed-size buffer with excessively large input data.
See also {buffer overflow}, {overrun screw}, {smash the stack}....
ACK: /ak/ interj. 1. [from the ASCII mnemonic for 0000110] Acknowledge.
Used to register one's presence (compare mainstream *Yo!...
File Attach: [FidoNet] 1. n. A file sent along with a mail message from one BBS to another.
2. vt. Sending someone a file by using the File Attach option in a BBS mailer....