posting

Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

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. [1913 Webster]

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. [1913 Webster]

2.To hold up to public blame or reproach; to advertise opprobriously; to denounce by public proclamation; as, to post one for cowardice. [1913 Webster]

On pain of being posted to your sorrow Fail not, at four, to meet me.— Granville.[1913 Webster]

3.To enter (a name) on a list, as for service, promotion, or the like. [1913 Webster]

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. [1913 Webster]

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. [1913 Webster]

You have not posted your books these ten years.— Arbuthnot.[1913 Webster]

6.To place in the care of the post; to mail; as, to post a letter. [1913 Webster]

7.To inform; to give the news to; to make (one) acquainted with the details of a subject; -- often with up. [1913 Webster]

Thoroughly posted up in the politics and literature of the day.— Lond. Sat. Rev.[1913 Webster]

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. [1913 Webster]

1.The act of traveling post. [1913 Webster]

2.(Bookkeeping) The act of transferring an account, as from the journal to the ledger. [1913 Webster]

Posting house, a post house. [1913 Webster]

Free On-line Dictionary of Computing

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]

The Jargon File

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.