Meaning of newspost | Babel Free

Definitions

A message posted to a newsgroup.

Internet

Examples

“Surf’nRexx is a package of 18 REXX functions in one DLL for performing various Internet activities such as sending and receiving mail or newsposts, retrieving web pages, and, of course, transferring files via FTP.”

“Select the type of newsfeed: inbound and outbound, inbound only, or outbound only. You also need to specify the type of feed: push or pull. “Push” means you wait for incoming to be sent to you; “pull” means at a scheduled interval you go and grab the newsposts off of the news server. Click Next.”

“7.00pm Collect e-mail and newsposts. Sit and read, reply to them and so on. Time for a quick computer game – Final Fantasy VIII or Tomb Raider III.”

“Fill prefixes are a way of putting a certain string of characters at the beginning of each line in a paragraph or a file. Developers will immediately think of comments as a potential fill prefix. When writing email or newsposts, email programs often insert a string to help readers distinguish the threads of a discussion.”

“But now…I just turn on my newsreader I’ve got like seven hundred blogs that I subscribe to and it trickles down and I say let me just search these newsposts about this particular article that I’m supposed to blog about, and I find about twenty or thirty of them.”

“This book also has many excerpts from the newspost, which is kind of new. I’ve dropped them in on occasion before, especially if it was something of an extended nature, but this is the first time I’ve grabbed great handfuls of stuff and said “I like that” without feeling the need to resort to some kind of ironic dismissal. Recall that for the first several years of the site, I didn’t even archive the newsposts: I just deleted that field out of the HTML and started fresh.”

“Your Internet connection leaves a trail of sorts that becomes imprinted on all of your online activities. This fingerprint is foremost your IP address. Browser web page requests (and your browser’s cookies), web search history, email messages, social media posts, chat sessions, torrent file-sharing traffic and Usenet newsposts will normally all leave behind remnants of your IP address in one way or another. […] Like other elements of the Internet, Usenet requires its own primary app (called a newsreader) and has its own terminology. Your newsreader app accesses a news server which contains newgroups^([sic]) which further contain messages (called newsposts, posts or articles).”

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