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useress en · NOUN

Etymology

From user + -ess.

Meanings

1. (rare) A female user.
   • This is not really for an embedded forum, but if I may, I'd like to add that as the recent Happy99 virus demonstrated, it is possible to have a PC send EXE files with e-mails without the user knowing about it. Or at least, the common, not too observative user or useress. 1999 March 12, au...@cam.org, “Re: Security Violation!”, in comp.arch.embedded (Usenet), message-ID <7cb535$8dl$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>:
   • Ha! Foolish user (useress?) 1992 May 19, Ron A. 5150 Echeverri, “Re: Some Other Establishment Screwup!”, in alt.cascade (Usenet), message-ID <l1hk41INN7vs@wezea.usc.edu>:
   • This could be true ... but don't forget all the "lower" computers that are still out there. Just today I discovered a machine that still runs under DR DOS 6 and the useress worked with a DOS Wordprocessor, / can you imagine this ??? 1993 December 1, Oliver Haeuser, “Re: OS2 vs Chicago”, in comp.os.os2.advocacy (Usenet), message-ID <5E3vts5d5T@55.hot.zer.de>:
   • (Note:) Sorry if I did not explicitely^([sic]) mention the "useresses" all the time -- I shoudl^([sic]) point out that when I have a Linux question, it is usually one of several women who has the answers.... 2000 February 10, Helmut P. Einfalt, “Re: Linux? Why?”, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.video (Usenet), message-ID <87v4li$ndn$1@news01.btx.dtag.de>:
   • Nevertheless that's a nice idea. But I'm afraid using configuration files off the net without checking is a security risk. The users and useresses should really first check the generated config file before using it! Or you should use secure connections to trusted institutions to generate them. 2002 July 12, Raoul Bönisch, “Re: generating .muttrc”, in mailing.unix.mutt-users (Usenet), message-ID <agmv0v$25rj$1@FreeBSD.csie.NCTU.edu.tw>:

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