Citations:bargepoleware

English citations of bargepoleware

Noun: "(UK, Internet slang, pejorative) something (especially software) to be avoided at all costs"

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• 2003 October 12, Chris Ridd, “Re: OSX Family Pack”, in uk.comp.sys.mac‎^[1] (Usenet):

  Go for FreeBSD. Solaris x86 is bargepoleware - it has extremely limited support for PC hardware (ie graphics cards, network cards).

• 2004 June 3, Chris Ridd, “Re: Jokes turning into mainstream terms”, in uk.comp.sys.mac‎^[2] (Usenet):

  There's vampireware (sucks the life out of the engineers working on it) and then there's bargepoleware..

• 2006 March 19, KeithS, “Re: Healthy Bindging anyone?????”, in uk.food+drink.real-ale‎^[3] (Usenet):

  > Can you be certain
  > that "MSTAIA" is a commercial organisation? The poor spelling suggests
  > to me that it's not.
  >
  > I suppose you could nick them for not putting "COMMERCIAL" or "FS" in
  > the subject line, but it's hardly a hanging offence.
  
  Joyce, if you're happy to send them $15, then fine. Personally, i'd^[sic]treat the whole thing as bargepoleware.