From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Post \Post\, verb (used with an object) [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 The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
2. (Bookkeeping) The act of transferring an account, as from the journal to the ledger.
{Posting house}, a post house.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
noun
1: a sign posted in a public place as an advertisement; "a poster advertised the coming attractions" [syn: {poster}, {placard}, {notice}, {bill}, {card}]
2: (bookkeeping) a listing on the company's records; "the posting was made in the cash account"
3: the transmission of a letter; "the postmark indicates the time of mailing" [syn: {mailing}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
57 Moby Thesaurus words for "posting": allocation, appointment, assignment, booking, cataloging, chronicling, collocation, deployment, deposit, deposition, designation, disposition, emplacement, enlistment, enrollment, entering, entry, impanelment, indexing, inscribing, inscription, insertion, inventorying, lading, listing, loading, localization, locating, location, logging, matriculation, naming, nomination, ordainment, ordination, packing, pinpointing, placement, placing, positioning, putting, record keeping, recordation, recording, register, registration, registry, reposition, selection, situation, spotting, stationing, storage, stowage, tabbing, tabulation, transferral
From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [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 (27 SEP 03) [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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