newspost
nounEtymology From news + post.
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Internet A message posted to a newsgroup.
- 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.1997 June, Michael Norton, “Innoval’s Surf’nRexx”, in Amy B. Novotny, editor, Technical Support, volume 5, number 6, Oak Creek, Wis.: Technical Enterprises, Inc., page 67, column 2:
- 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.1999, John Savill, The Windows NT and Windows 2000 Answer Book: A Complete Resource from the Desktop to the Enterprise, Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, →ISBN, page 754:
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- 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.2000, Brian Dutton, quoting Marc, Media Studies: An Introduction, 3rd edition, Harlow, Essex: Longman, →ISBN, page 5:
- 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.2005, Debra Cameron, James Elliott, Marc Loy, Eric [Steven] Raymond, Bill Rosenblatt, Learning GNU Emacs: A Guide to the World’s Most Extensible, Customizable Editor, 3rd edition, Sebastopol, Calif.: O’Reilly Media, Inc., →ISBN, page 183:
- 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.2009, Kristina Schneider, quoting Mark, “[Case studies] Case 4 – Mark”, in Edublogging: A Qualitative Study of Training and Development Bloggers, Montreal, Que.: Acorda Press, →ISBN, page 92:
- 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.2012 September 17, Tycho Brahe [pseudonym; Jerry Holkins], “Intro 9”, in Passion’s Howl (Penny Arcade; 9), Portland, Ore.: Oni Press, Inc., published 2013, →ISBN: