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The Jargon File, Version 4.0.0, 24 Jul 1996 by Various
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properly named `Clarus'). Option-shift-click will cause it to emit
a characteristic `Moof!' or `!fooM' sound. *Getting* to tech
note 31 is the hard part; to discover how to do that, one must
needs examine the stack script with a hackerly eye. Clue:
{rot13} is involved. A dogcow also appears if you choose `Page
Setup...' with a LaserWriter selected and click on the
`Options' button.

:dogpile: /v./ [Usenet: prob. fr. mainstream "puppy pile"]
When many people post unfriendly responses in short order to a
single posting, they are sometimes said to "dogpile" or "dogpile
on" the person to whom they're responding. For example, when a
religious missionary posts a simplistic appeal to alt.atheism,
he can expect to be dogpiled.

:dogwash: /dog'wosh/ [From a quip in the `urgency' field
of a very optional software change request, ca. 1982. It was
something like "Urgency: Wash your dog first".] 1. /n./ A project
of minimal priority, undertaken as an escape from more serious
work. 2. /v./ To engage in such a project. Many games and much
{freeware} get written this way.

:domainist: /doh-mayn'ist/ /adj./ 1. [USENET, by pointed
analogy with "sexist", "racist", etc.] Someone who judges
people by the domain of their email addresses; esp. someone who
dismisses anyone who posts from a public internet provider. "What
do you expect from an article posted from aol.com?" 2. Said of an
{{Internet address}} (as opposed to a {bang path}) because the
part to the right of the `@' specifies a nested series of
`domains'; for example, esr@snark.thyrsus.com specifies
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