The Coiner of DRIB

[emckean at ENTERACT.COM]

This is to save Barry needless work when he starts taking on Internet
acronyms & initialisms.

I am not ruling out the possibility of simultaneous independent coinages.

Erin McKean
editor at verbatimmag.com

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 11:34:42 -0400
From: lorilynb at mindspring.com
To: emckean at enteract.com
Subject: Re: Re: DUMB QUESTIONS

Erin,

Sure!

I love words.  I also coined the word "weboneer" in a book in 1996 (meaning web pioneer), but no one uses it. But someone DID take the domain name!

Lorilyn Bailey

emckean at enteract.com wrote:
>

<snip> I cut my email where I asked her permission to forward her email
from the PUBLISH-L list to ADS-L. --ERin <snip>

On Sun, 13 Aug 2000, Lorilyn Bailey wrote:

> Yes, I invented DRIB ("Don't Read If Busy") several years ago on the PMA
> list in response to people who complained about off-topic, humorous, or
> less-than-vitally-important posts. If you're in a hurry, you can delete or
> read DRIBs later. (And let the rest of us enjoy them.)
>
> It's my major lifetime contribution to Internet society. ;) It's now used
> on other lists as well and included in one or two "net lingo" and acronmyn
> sites on the Internet.
>
> Lorilyn Bailey
> GuestFinder.com
> and author of "The Little Book of Online Romance"
> lorilyn at guestfinder.com
>
>
> >In a message dated 00-08-13 01:56:00 EDT, Bettilu Stein Faulkner writes:
> >
> >> Someone wrote that lurkers shouldn't worry about asking dumb questions.
> >>  I've been watching for weeks, and have yet figured out what DRIB
> >>  stands for!
>