Category: jargon
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IT jargon: ping (quoting “The Jargon File”)
http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/P/ping.html http://www.catb.org/jargon/jargbook.html – “The Jargon File” resp. “The New Hacker’s Dictionary” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jargon_File – that article has links to all generations of The Jargon File https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jargon_File#External_links : https://web.archive.org/web/20130827121341/http://cosman246.com/jargon.html – so far the youngest one
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e-mail addresses and “sub-addressing” and “plus addressing” resp. “plussing”
e-mail messages addressing John.Doe+MailingListName@gmail.com are meant to actually go to johndoe@gmail.com, in other words: On the recipient side, software can check on plussing and may come to decisions based on the string between the “+” and the “@”. Yes, gmail and hotmail and posteo do support plussing. GMX does not support plussing. On my domains…
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Hackers’s dictionary aka the Jargon File abandoned by ESR
Looks like the Jargon File got abandoned by Eric S. Raymond.It hasn’t been updated during the last couple of years.I offered Eric to invest time and energy,but I got no answer back. Update 2012-12-25: I once owned a printed copy of this book, but it was one of the many victims of various accidents inside…