Path: cdrom.com!barrnet.net!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!torn!news.unb.ca!coranto.ucs.mun.ca!nstn.ns.ca!nstn.ns.ca!nntp-user From: "Grant MacLeod" Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom Subject: Re: Skinny Dip Date: 24 May 1994 22:27:46 -0300 Organization: Nova Scotia Technology Network Lines: 26 Sender: news@nstn.ns.ca Message-ID: <90269.macleod@fox.nstn.ns.ca> Reply-To: NNTP-Posting-Host: owl.nstn.ns.ca X-Minuet-Version: Minuet1.0_Beta_14.1 X-POPMail-Charset: English To: jjfloyd@vela.acs.oakland.edu On 24 May 1994 20:09:53 GMT, Jered Floyd wrote: >: Please forgive my ignorance but what does it mean to "pull a greencard" >: and to "spam" something? > >"Pull A Greencard": slang, Internet: > Reference to lawyers Canter and Siegel who singlehandedly posted to >more than 5000 USENET groups from Internet Direct, advertising their >greencard services. They managed to crash Internet Direct many many >times due to the great volume of hate mail. They were disbarred in >several states, and had large amounts of personal data about them posted >by angry 'netters. "Pull a Greencard" means to post commercial >advertising to ever USENET group in existance. >"Spam": verb, slang, Internet: > To overload a system with useless data. From Hormel's ever cajoled >SPAM. Thanks Jered I'm a new Internet user and its good to hear about the lingo and history of the Internet. Grant -- Grant MacLeod CGI Information Systems and Management Consultants macleod@fox.nstn.ns.ca