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 More options Nov 20 1995, 3:00 am
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.words-l
From: Bookrat <book...@BOOKRAT.COM>
Date: 1995/11/20
Subject: Re: Not Exactly a Digest #2

>karsten (kars...@netcom.com) wrote:
>: Roy Radow (ra...@netcom.com) blathered on:
>: [...]

>: Does this guy kiboze or did one of you contact him?

>Wasn't me.  What's "kiboze"?

>Verdant

A verb meaning "to grep all Usenet for a selected word or words".  It's a
portmanteau word, a combination of "Kibo" and "bulldoze".  Kibo used to
answer every post, in every newsgroup, that contained his name.  (He might
answer this one, but Usenet is a lot larger than it used to be.)

(Speaking of email brushes with fame, I once got personal email from him.)

It's a relatively simple, if time-consuming, task to scan all newsgroups
for selected words.  Something to think about.

Ken Miller
Systems Annalist
Babbage Engine Works
book...@bookrat.com


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