meaning of posting
1. The act of traveling post.
2. The act of transferring an account, as from the journal to the ledger.
3. of Post
4. posting A message sent to a newsgroup or mailing list may also be called "a post" or the act of sending it. Distinguished from a "letter" or ordinary electronic mail message by the fact that it is broadcast rather than point-to-point. It is not clear whether messages sent to a small mailing list are postings or e-mail; perhaps the best dividing line is that if you dont know the names of all the potential recipients, it is a posting. [Jargon File] postmaster The electronic mail contact and maintenance person at a site connected to the Internet or UUCPNET. Often, but not always, the same as the admin. The Internet standard for electronic mail RFC 822 requires each machine to have a "postmaster" address; usually it is aliased to this person. See also webmaster. post office problem Given a set of points in N dimensions, find another point which minimises the sum of the distances from that point to each of the others. Post Office Protocol
5. the transmission of a letter; "the postmark indicates the time of
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