![]() AD2
Mailing list started up by people who wanted to talk about
"real" gaming issues instead of all the "crap" in alt.digitiser. Cussed
bigtime because they use egroups, not ONElist. Although that's all
academic now, since eGroups and ONElist combined their services and were
promptly swallowed by Yahoo. AD2 still exists but the only thing
that can be seen there these days are three posts
each year, all of them asking about aeroplanes. Hurrah for success! AGREE
Agree, also known as "I agree" is by no means exclusive to
AD. Quoting a 400 line post in its entirety and adding "I
agree" at the end is one of the examples used by people who
remember the olden days when "netiquette" still existed, and the
Internet was coal-fired. Its use in alt.digitiser, however, began as
with most AD "things" due to a #DiGi conspiracy. MrPSB
said to TOM
SCOTT "I am going to post 6000 line messages, and I demand that
you reply with "I agree" to all of them. Tom Scott duly
agreed and they brought TERROR and FEAR to news admins everywhere
(lie). "I agree" is, quite obviously, used when you agree
with a post. However, the post should be of sufficient length for
your adolescent rebellion against the grown-ups who would impose their
rules of "netiquette" upon you to actually be worthwhile.
AIRFIELD, DAMIEN One of the many guises
of this troll/scammer, which also included "Taylorscum" and others which I
can't remember now. Caused trouble for everyone by hoaxing people into a
mailing list then posting all the addresses he collected. He's gone for
now, but if Freeserve don't revoke his account, we expect he'll be back.
Long since revealed to actually be BEVAN.
ALBUMS See ANIMAL PR0N.
ALPHATECH See WHITE,
GERARD. ALT.CONFIG
Self-styled guardians of the alt.* newsgroup hierarchy.
Theoretically made up of news admins who discuss proposals for new alt
groups before allowing them to be created. They are obviously very
successful at this when you consider that they refused to agree to any
digitiser newsgroup in alt.* and the fact that there are now approximately
seventeen billion empty digitiser newsgroups in alt.digitiser.* and
others.
ALT.POSSESSIVE.ITS.HAS.NO.APOSTROPHE
A newsgroup solely dedicated to saving the apostrophe. Generally people post examples they have seen of
APOSTROPHE CATASTROPHE and others in the group probably write irate
letters or emails to the offenders or something. Number of posts to this newsgroup would hit at least quadruple figures per day if every
alt.digitiser post containing a catastrophe were reported here.
ALT.TEST.FUCKFACE Came about after people finally became fed up of test posts sent to alt.digitiser.
Evolved from "ALT.TEST FUCKFACE" (which is missing a comma,
See ALT.POSSESSIVE.ITS.HAS.NO.APOSTROPHE)
until someone added a dot somewhere along the line (if you actually care who it was ask Google or something)
making ALT.TEST.FUCKFACE. Recently became a real live newsgroup (not a lie) after extended discussion in alt.config (lie).
See also: .FUCKFACE
AMIG0R Variant spelling of "Amiga". MARK
WILLIAMSON explains; "Amig0rs are so powerful that they aren't allowed
to be discussed for any reason whatsoever unless you have a special
permission slip from the US military. Therefore when discussing the Amig0r
over the Internet you must type "Amig0r", or the US authorities will find
it on deja.com and arrest you."
ANIMAL
PR0N Variant spelling of 'animal porn', and forms the basis of
a really really funny thing, which goes a bit like "You / STEPHEN
HAWKING / John Prescott came round my house, and tried to barge in
holding albums full of animal pr0n. When we wouldn't let them in, you / he
just stood outside and posted them through our letter box", as NICK
MOONEY never did to MARK
WILLIAMSON, as described HERE, no.
APOSTROPHE CATASTROPHE
An incorrectly placed apostrophe, E.G. "Finest Banana's 25p
each". For a true catastrophe it should be an accident, although it is
often used in alt.digitiser for "comedy" purposes. ATARI ST After they passed up the opportunity to have the Amiga all for themselves, Atari immediately released a quickly knocked together low quality competitor, with a MIDI interface built in (which is all you'll fucking hear from ST users, incidentally). This, the follow up competitor to the A1200 called "Falcon" and their ill-fated "64-bit" console Jaguar eventually led to them DYING HORRIBLY. Then being resurrected as whores of Hasbro. Mohh. For other whores of Hasbro, see GREMLIN. |