useress
English
Etymology
Noun
useress (plural useresses) (rare)
- A female user.
- 1992 May 19, Ron A. 5150 Echeverri, “Re: Some Other Establishment Screwup!”, in alt.cascade (Usenet), message-ID <[email protected]>:
- Ha! Foolish user (useress?)
- 1993 December 1, Oliver Haeuser, “Re: OS2 vs Chicago”, in comp.os.os2.advocacy (Usenet), message-ID <[email protected]>:
- 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 ???
- 1999 March 12, [email protected], “Re: Security Violation!”, in comp.arch.embedded (Usenet), message-ID <[email protected]>:
- 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.
- 2000 February 10, Helmut P. Einfalt, “Re: Linux? Why?”, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.video (Usenet), message-ID <[email protected]>:
- (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....
- 2002 July 12, Raoul Bönisch, “Re: generating .muttrc”, in mailing.unix.mutt-users (Usenet), message-ID <[email protected]>:
- 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.