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<H2>Generated</H2>
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<H2>Glossary</H2>
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v. To design or implement a tool equivalent to an existing one or part of one, with the implication that doing so is silly or a waste of time. This is often a valid criticism. On the other hand, automobiles don't use wooden rollers, and some kinds of wheel have to be reinvented many times before you get them right. On the third hand, people reinventing the wheel do tend to come up with the moral equivalent of a trapezoid with an offset axle.
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<H4>relay rape</H4>
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n. The hijacking of a third party's unsecured mail server to deliver spam.
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<H4>religion of CHI</H4>
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/ki:/ , n. [Case Western Reserve University] Yet another hackish parody religion (see also Church of the SubGenius , Discordianism ). In the mid-70s, the canonical Introduction to Programming courses at CWRU were taught in Algol, and student exercises were punched on cards and run on a Univac 1108 system using a homebrew operating system named CHI. The religion had no doctrines and but one ritual: whenever the worshiper noted that a digital clock read 11:08, he or she would recite the phrase It is 11:08; ABS, ALPHABETIC, ARCSIN, ARCCOS, ARCTAN. The last five words were the first five functions in the appropriate chapter of the Algol manual; note the special pronunciations /obz/ and /arksin/ rather than the more common /ahbz/ and /arksi:n/. Using an alarm clock to warn of 11:08's arrival was considered harmful.
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<H4>spamhaus</H4>
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spamhows , n. Pejorative term for an internet service provider that permits or even encourages spam mailings from its systems. The plural is spamhausen. There is a web page devoted to tracking spamhausen. The most notorious of the spamhausen was Sanford Wallace's Cyber Promotions Inc., shut down by a lawsuit on 16 October 1997. The anniversary of the shutdown is celebrated on Usenet as Spam Freedom Day, but lesser imitators of the Spamford still infest various murky corners of the net. Since prosecution of spammers became routine under the junk-fax laws and statues specifically targeting spam, spamhausen have declined in relative importance; today, hit-and-run attacks by spammers using relay rape and throwaway accounts on reputable ISPs seem to account for most of the flow.
spamhows , n. Pejorative term for an internet service provider that permits or even encourages spam mailings from its systems. The plural is spamhausen. There is a web page devoted to tracking spamhausen. The most notorious of the spamhausen was Sanford Wallace's Cyber Promotions Inc., shut down by a lawsuit on 16 October 1997. The anniversary of the shutdown is celebrated on Usenet as Spam Freedom Day, but lesser imitators of the Spamford still infest various murky corners of the net. Since prosecution of spammers became routine under the junk-fax laws and statues specifically targeting spam, spamhausen have declined in relative importance; today, hit-and-run attacks by spammers using throwaway accounts on reputable ISPs seem to account for most of the flow.
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<H4>spamvertize</H4>
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