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• fool file n. [Usenet] A notional repository of all the most dramatically and abysmally stupid utterances ever.
  An entire subgenre of sig blocks consists of the header "From the fool file...
• ig block: /sig blok/ [UNIX; often written `.sig' there] n.
  Short for `signature', used specifically to refer to the electronic signature block that most UNIX mail- and news-posting software will {automagically} append to outgoing mail and news....
• ig block /sig blok/ n. [Unix; often written `.sig' there] Short for `signature'
  used specifically to refer to the electronic signature block that most Unix mail- and news-posting software will automagically append to outgoing mail and news....
• include: vt. [USENET] 1. To duplicate a portion (or whole) of another's message (typically with attribution to the source) in a reply or followup, for clarifying the context of one's response.
  See the discussion of inclusion styles under "Hacker Writing Style"....
• ig quote: /sig kwoht/ [USENET] n. A maxim, quote, proverb
  joke, or slogan embedded in one's {sig block} and intended to convey something of one's philosophical stance, pet peeves, or sense of humor....
• kill file: [USENET] n. (alt. `KILL file') Per-user file(s) used by some {USENET} reading programs (originally Larry Wall's `rn(1)') to discard summarily (without presenting for reading) articles matching some particularly uninteresting (or unwanted) patterns of subjec
  author, or other header lines. Thus to add a person (or subject) to one's kill file is to arrange for that person to be ignored by one's newsreader in future....
• idempotent: [from mathematical techspeak] adj. Acting as if used only once, even if used multiple times.
  This term is often used with respect to {C} header files, which contain common definitions and declarations to be included by several source files....
• ig virus: n. A parasitic {meme} embedded in a {sig block}.
  There was a {meme plague} or fad for these on USENET in late 1991....
• Quote #85 While clearing out my file cabinet, I uncovered the following, which struck me as relevant to a lot of what goes on in comp.
  isks. Quoted from a paper, 'The Emperor's Old Clothes', by Charles Antony Richard Hoare, published in CACM Feb 1981...