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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Post \Post\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Posted}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Posting}.]
     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.
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     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.
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     2. To hold up to public blame or reproach; to advertise
        opprobriously; to denounce by public proclamation; as, to
        post one for cowardice.
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              On pain of being posted to your sorrow
              Fail not, at four, to meet me.        --Granville.
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     3. To enter (a name) on a list, as for service, promotion, or
        the like.
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     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.
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     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.
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              You have not posted your books these ten years.
                                                    --Arbuthnot.
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     6. To place in the care of the post; to mail; as, to post a
        letter.
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     7. To inform; to give the news to; to make (one) acquainted
        with the details of a subject; -- often with up.
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              Thoroughly posted up in the politics and literature
              of the day.                           --Lond. Sat.
                                                    Rev.
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     {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.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Posting \Post"ing\, n.
     1. The act of traveling post.
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     2. (Bookkeeping) The act of transferring an account, as from
        the journal to the ledger.
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     {Posting house}, a post house.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  posting
       n 1: a sign posted in a public place as an advertisement; "a
            poster advertised the coming attractions" [syn: {poster},
             {placard}, {notice}, {bill}, {card}]
       2: (bookkeeping) a listing on the company's records; "the
          posting was made in the cash account"
       3: the transmission of a letter; "the postmark indicates the
          time of mailing" [syn: {mailing}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  57 Moby Thesaurus words for "posting":
     allocation, appointment, assignment, booking, cataloging,
     chronicling, collocation, deployment, deposit, deposition,
     designation, disposition, emplacement, enlistment, enrollment,
     entering, entry, impanelment, indexing, inscribing, inscription,
     insertion, inventorying, lading, listing, loading, localization,
     locating, location, logging, matriculation, naming, nomination,
     ordainment, ordination, packing, pinpointing, placement, placing,
     positioning, putting, record keeping, recordation, recording,
     register, registration, registry, reposition, selection, situation,
     spotting, stationing, storage, stowage, tabbing, tabulation,
     transferral
  
  

From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:

  posting n. 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.
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  posting
       
          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.
       
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