5  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Posting  \Post"ing\,  n. 
  1.  The  act  of  traveling  post 
 
  2.  (Bookkeeping)  The  act  of  transferring  an  account,  as  from 
  the  journal  to  the  ledger. 
 
  {Posting  house},  a  post  house. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Post  \Post\,  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Posted};  p.  pr  &  vb  n. 
  {Posting}.] 
  1.  To  attach  to  a  post  a  wall,  or  other  usual  place  of 
  affixing  public  notices;  to  placard;  as  to  post  a  notice; 
  to  post  playbills. 
 
  Note:  Formerly,  a  large  post  was  erected  before  the  sheriff's 
  office,  or  in  some  public  place  upon  which  legal 
  notices  were  displayed.  This  way  of  advertisement  has 
  not  entirely  gone  of  use 
 
  2.  To  hold  up  to  public  blame  or  reproach;  to  advertise 
  opprobriously;  to  denounce  by  public  proclamation;  as  to 
  post  one  for  cowardice. 
 
  On  pain  of  being  posted  to  your  sorrow  Fail  not  at 
  four  to  meet  me  --Granville. 
 
  3.  To  enter  (a  name)  on  a  list,  as  for  service,  promotion,  or 
  the  like 
 
  4.  To  assign  to  a  station;  to  set  to  place  as  to  post  a 
  sentinel.  ``It  might  be  to  obtain  a  ship  for  a  lieutenant, 
  .  .  .  or  to  get  him  posted.''  --De  Quincey. 
 
  5.  (Bookkeeping)  To  carry,  as  an  account,  from  the  journal  to 
  the  ledger;  as  to  post  an  account;  to  transfer,  as 
  accounts,  to  the  ledger. 
 
  You  have  not  posted  your  books  these  ten  years. 
  --Arbuthnot. 
 
  6.  To  place  in  the  care  of  the  post  to  mail  as  to  post  a 
  letter. 
 
  7.  To  inform;  to  give  the  news  to  to  make  one  acquainted 
  with  the  details  of  a  subject;  --  often  with  up 
 
  Thoroughly  posted  up  in  the  politics  and  literature 
  of  the  day  --Lond.  Sat. 
  Rev. 
 
  {To  post  off},  to  put  off  to  delay.  [Obs.]  ``Why  did  I, 
  venturously,  post  off  so  great  a  business?''  --Baxter. 
 
  {To  post  over},  to  hurry  over  [Obs.]  --Fuller. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  posting 
  n  :  the  transmission  of  a  letter;  "the  postmark  indicates  the 
  time  of  mailing"  [syn:  {mailing}] 
 
  From  Jargon  File  (4.2.3,  23  NOV  2000)  [jargon]: 
 
  posting  n.  Noun  corresp.  to  v.  {post}  (but  note  that  {post} 
  can  be  nouned).  Distinguished  from  a  `letter'  or  ordinary  {email} 
  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  email;  perhaps  the  best  dividing  line  is  that  if  you  don't  know  the 
  names  of  all  the  potential  recipients,  it  is  a  posting. 
 
 
 
  From  The  Free  On-line  Dictionary  of  Computing  (13  Mar  01)  [foldoc]: 
 
  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  don't  know  the  names  of  all  the  potential  recipients,  it 
  is  a  posting. 
 
  [{Jargon  File}] 
 
 

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