DAU /dow/ n.
[German FidoNet] German acronym for Dümmster
Anzunehmender User (stupidest imaginable user). From the
engineering-slang GAU for Grösster Anzunehmender Unfall,
worst assumable accident, esp. of a LNG tank farm plant or
something with similarly disastrous consequences. In popular
German, GAU is used only to refer to worst-case nuclear acidents
such as a core meltdown. See cretin,
fool, loser and weasel.
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Dave the Resurrector n.
[Usenet; also abbreviated DtR] A cancelbot that cancels cancels. Dave the
Resurrector originated when some spam-spewers decided to try to impede
spam-fighting by wholesale cancellation of anti-spam coordination
messages in the _news.admin.net-abuse.usenet_ newsgroup.