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I was surprised to see something about the old unix mail notifier: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biff_(Unix) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biff_(Unix) But thi

• jacobobryant 3y ago
  Too late to change the name now unfortunately ;) at least it's short and easy to type
• jhbadger 3y ago
  If you want to go old-school there was also a famous satirical USENET poster. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BIFF_(Usenet) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BIFF_(Usenet)
  • JNRowe 3y ago
    You can still relive a little of that joy with b1ff from talkfilters¹, with the caveat that a chunk of that package probably deserves a content warning for our times. ¹ https://github.com/hyperrealm/talkfilters https://github.com/hyperrealm/talkfilters
  • UncleSlacky 3y ago
    That's what I was expecting this item to be about!