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News tonight has a buzz-word new to me:
"It also scours your hard drive for new e-mail addresses to send the same bogus message. These messages, like the one you got, are "spoofed" to appear as if they came from PayPal."
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It may be a neologism, but unless it's been appearing a lot it's not a buzzword. If you've only just seen it for the first time, bill, that argues against it being a buzzword yet.
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Well they did put it into quotation marks, as though not everybody was expected to know it. I have been surprised that some of my friends have been taken in my e-mails that were clumsy copies of Microsoft announcements.
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Spoof has been around for a while. When I've heard it, it has virtually always been used in re: a movie; for ex. that "Scream" is a spoof of other horror movies. Though it has always indicated something comedic, which it doesn't sound like the fake Paypal messages are.
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wrong context for this "spoofing", J.; look it up in OneLook and page down to the Computing section. I think it qualifies as a "networking" buzzword.
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Very common term in the military--often used to describe false radar images generated for anti-missile tactics or releasing false targets from submarines for evasion.
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AHD4 says the meaning "to deceive" dates to 1889. It comes from the name of a game invented in the nineteenth century. http://www.bartleby.com/61/7/S0660700.html
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When I woke up this morning, I had just been dreaming about going to the library--and found an e-mail from a friend who said he had gone to the library.
And just a few minutes ago I was thinking about another friend, wondering if the reason I hadn't received anything for so long was that it was my turn to write, and...here came a message from that very person.
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we just called this the "three coins" game... how lame was that?!
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An didja have all them neat names for numbers?
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I found the game taxing enough (let's see... 5 players... average 1.5 coins per... say 7... no, 8... but Joe always shows 0, so make it 6... but he could change up with 3, say 9...) without throwing in a conversion/confusion factor.
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