Sivasankar Chander wrote:
to what the posting meant. My sysadmin at the time, Sean 'Xibo' Coates, who
was a minor net.personality at the time (he presided over alt.angst, and
was also a counter-weight to another net.personality who went by the name
of Kibo (alt.kibology)) just laughed off my enquiry, so it must have been
well-known terminology by that time.