... it seems to me it is not specifically American, rather it's computero-netish...

My point asking for these words' meanings is to bring it to the native english speakers' attention that sometimes using other than the electronics-pidgin here (with no explanation or clue or so) may be very confusing for us. It's not that we don't want to learn a new word or we are not able to look it up in a dictionary (conventional or computero-netish :-) ) but it's perhaps not the best thing to reference to a document for newbies using an uncommon word, likely to confuse the newbie even more...

Jan Waclawek