Re: Rules of the list question

Jens Mayer <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.gentoo.newbies
Message-ID <[email protected]>
* On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 21:42:40 -0500, Levente -Levi- Littvay wrote:

> What is Munging?  (answer in private please)

> I have been a computer geek for over 10 years now, and I have lived in
> the US for 7 years.  (English is my second language) and I am not
> familiar with the term Munging.  (I looked it up in the Oxford and
> Webster dic, and 2 on-line English-Hungarian dictionaries - no luck)

A computer geek unable to do basic research on google? Well, first
result for the simple term "munging" was:

 http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html

Beeing a geek, you should also know the jargon file, I guess.

 http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/entry/munge.html
 http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/entry/mung.html

> Please don't take this e-mail offensively, I felt uncomfortable joining
> the list since I did not understand the rules. 

You are welcome, I hope I could help you out a bit.

Regards,
Jens

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