Detweilering (was Re: Positive uses for PGP)

[Stanton McCandlish]

In article <Pine.3.89.9404031126.A27596-0100000 at krypton.mankato.msus.edu>,
Robert A. Hayden <hayden at krypton.mankato.msus.edu> wrote:
>On Sun, 3 Apr 1994, Mike McNally wrote:
>
>> I'm not Detweilering; I speak of the ostensible use of the signature
>> chain.)
>
>Detweilering?
>
>Sounds like an entry we need to get put into future versions of a Jargon 
>File.

Certainly, but as I recall it was "to detweil", rather than "to
detweiler", though the latter should probably be recorded as a "dialectal
variation".  Someone needs to come up with a precise definition, and I'll
submit it for the Jargon file.  I think some old posts using the term
would be of value for authenticating it.

[NB: I have a far less dim view of LD that most of you, since I've seen
him do useful work, so it's nothing personal.  The word detweil, however, is
an honest-to-goodness incidence of a new term arising in the language of
it's own accord, regardless of how anyone feels about it, so it ought to
be recorded for posterity.]
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