May 15, 2003

sigmonster

n.

[common] A beast that randomly chooses one of a selection of signatures for appending to mail and news messages. The creature is most often mentioned directly when it has been in particularly good form and selected a signature appropriate to the topic being discussed; the construction P.S.: good sigmonster, have a cookie is not uncommon. While the are sigmonster programs floating around on the net, most hackers who keep one use a silly little Perl or Python script that they threw together in the middle of the night under the influence of far too much caffeine.

Posted by Jargon File at May 15, 2003 10:30 AM

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