Tip of the Day

  1. HTH: Happy to help or Hope that helped
  2. Never try to outstubborn a cat
  3. AFAIK: As far as I know
  4. HAND: Have a nice day
  5. RTFM: Read the fine manual
  6. Your enemy is never a villain in his own eyes. Keep this in mind, it may offer a way to make him your friend. If not, you can kill him without hate, and quickly.
  7. RTFF: Read the fine FAQ
  8. FAQ: Frequently Asked Questions(http://www.faqs.org/faqs/)
  9. Never eat yellow snow
  10. The term 'spam' is a reference to the Monty Python sketch (Vikings, remember?)
  11. UCE: Unsolicited Commercial Email
  12. IP addresses in Received lines are a good way to filter email
  13. Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
  14. NoCeM: A way of letting others filter your newsfeed (http://www.cm.org/)
  15. Avoid making irrevocable decisions while tired or hungry.
  16. BI: The Breidbart Index, a measure of the breadth of a usenet spam
  17. Afterburner: The abuse guy at erols.net. One of the most rabid anti-spam people around. Erols spammers get deep-fried, extra crispy. One of the Good Guys.
  18. CAUCE: The Coalition against Unsolicited Commercial Email (http://www.cauce.org/)
  19. RFC: Request For Comments, the 'laws' of the Internet. (http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/)
  20. postmaster: The person responsible for email problems at a site. All sites must have a 'postmaster@' email address
  21. abuse: Many sites have an 'abuse@' address for handling email and usenet abuse. It isn't required.
  22. Moving parts in rubbing contact require lubrication to avoid excessive wear. Honorifics and formal politeness provide lubrication where people rub together. Often the very young, the untraveled, the naive, the unsophisticated deplore these formalities as 'empty', 'meaningless', or 'dishonest' and scorn to use them. No matter how 'pure' their motives, they thereby throw sand into machinery that does not work too well at best.
  23. UBE: Unsolicited Bulk Email
  24. procmail: A UNIX program for filtering incoming email
  25. Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors, and miss.
  26. ignorebot: A program that handles email sent to an abuse@ address by sending a soothing reply, and deleting the original complaint
  27. How you behave towards cats here below determines your status in Heaven
  28. LART: Luser Attitude Readjustment Tool. Baseball bats are popular.
  29. Cabal: There is no cabal
  30. ACHTUNG! ALLES LOOKENSPEEPERS! Das computermachine ist nicht fuer gefingerpoken und mittengrabben. Ist easy schnappen der springenwerk, blowenfusen und poppencorken mit spitzensparken. Ist nicht fuer gewerken bei das dumpkopfen. Das rubbernecken sichtseeren keepen das cotten-pickenen hans in das pockets muss; relaxen und watchen das blinkenlichten.
  31. Third party relay: To bounce an email message through an innocent third party's mailserver
  32. Tim Skirvin: One of the main usenet spam-cancellors. One of the Good Guys.
  33. S.P.U.T.U.M. The SubGenius Police, Usenet Tactical Unit (Mobile). These are the antispam SWAT team of the Church of the SubGenius
  34. Church of the SubGenius: A mutant offshoot of Discordianism. Much of SubGenius theory is concerned with the acquisition of the mythical substance or quality of slack
  35. Chris Lewis: One of the main usenet spam-cancellors. One of the Good Guys.
  36. IP Address: Unique identifier for a machine. Of the form a.b.c.d where each of a,b,c,d is a number >=0 and <256. If it's not like that, it's forged.
  37. emailed: embossed (with a raised pattern) or arranged in a net work, from the French 'emaillure', network
  38. Flame: To post an email or usenet message intended to insult and provoke.
  39. Fnord
  40. Backbone: One of the companies who provide the main backbone of the internet. An internet provider who doesn't buy bandwidth from anyone else.
  41. AGIS: Apex Global Internet Services. A rogue backbone provider. The source of much spam. Bouncing any email that's ever passed through an AGIS machine is a good way of reducing spam
  42. IMHO: In My Humble Opinion
  43. Kook: An extremely offensive, irrational, trolling usenetter. It's easy to troll, it takes great persistence to become a Kook.
  44. KotM: Kook of the Month
  45. Never appeal to a man's 'better nature.' He may not have one. Invoking his self interest gives you more leverage.
  46. dialup: A non-permanent connection to the 'net, typically over a 'phone line or ISDN line. Also known as a PoP (Point of Presence)
  47. mailbomb: To send someone hundreds of emails, with the intent of crashing their mail system. Don't do this. It's bad.
  48. killfile: A way of filtering out usenet posts from a particular poster. Real newsreaders have these.
  49. PGP: Pretty Good Privacy. A program for encrypting email and for unforgably signing email and usenet posts. (in the US and elsewhere)
  50. nastygram: A disapproving email, typically criticising anothers breach of netiquette
  51. ping: Packet INternet Groper
  52. dig: Domain Internet Groper
  53. regexp: Regular Expression, a powerful type of wildcard pattern. Used for pattern matching in procmail, amongst many other places
  54. You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.
  55. cancel-bot: A program that automatically cancels usenet posts. Some of these are good, cancelling spam and mis-posted binaries. Others are rogue cancelbots, used to disrupt newsgroups
  56. Spelling Flame: A usenet posting pointedly correcting the spelling of a previous article. If you make one of these, you've lost the argument.
  57. BTW: By The Way
  58. FWIW: For What It's Worth
  59. FYI: For Your Information
  60. LOL: Laughs Out Loud
  61. ROTFL: Rolling On The Floor, Laughing
  62. GoA,T: Go Away, Troll
  63. Troll: v. To post an inflammatory article in the hope of provoking a response. From the angling term. Troll n. One who Trolls. The best thing to do to a troll is to ignore it.
  64. Munge: To alter your email address, making it unusable. Don't do this. If you must do this, munge the bit to the right of the '@' sign, not the left.
  65. Down, not across
  66. /dev/null: The unix black-hole. Anything sent here is never seen again....
  67. The answer to any question starting 'Why don't they....' is almost always, 'Money'
  68. Whackamole: Spam being sent from a series of throwaway dialup accounts