overpost
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overposts
form: overposting
form: overposted
form: overposted
Etymology: From over- + post.
Senses: examples: text: The result would be that he either overposts his work which necessitates adjournments with inconvenience all round ; or underposts, the consequence of which is delay in disposal.
ref: 1964, Bombay (India : State). Committee on the Separation of the Judiciary from the Executive, Report of the Committee on the Separation of the Judiciary from the Executive:
text: Because the post office processes metered mail faster, your mail will reach its destination sconer. You'll never have to overpost another letter again.
ref: 1988, Government Executive - Volume 20, page 10:
text: In questioning by Plaintiff Attorney, and his attempts to gain testimony through you over the use of what is prudent or what is not, I think you said it is not prudent to overpost?
ref: 2006, Marvin J. Naus, Hidden Death Trap, →ISBN, page 146:
text: You can overpost and wear out your welcome.
ref: 2017, Michael Miller, My Social Media for Seniors, →ISBN:
glosses: To post too much or too often.
examples: text: You may thank the unquiet time for your quiet o'erposting that action.
ref: 1599, Shakespeare, Henry IV, part II:
glosses: To pass over swiftly, as if by post.
examples: text: ...labels must be positioned to avoid overposting, but without destroying the eye's ability to associate labels with appropriate features.
ref: 1990, Michael F. Goodchild, Karen Kathleen Kemp, NCGIA Core Curriculum: Introduction to GIS, page 17-4:
text: In the other method, a mapping program may have the ability to avoid overposting.
ref: 1990, J. A. Coffeen, Seismic on screen: an introduction to interactive interpretation, →ISBN:
text: Generally, shot point data have less overposting when the data is posted perpendicular to the orientation of the seismic line.
ref: 1992, Denver GeoTech ...: Proceedings, page 171:
topics: cartography
geography
natural-sciences
glosses: To print a text label or other graphic feature on top of another symbol.
examples: text: Weathering and overposting of other posters destroyed most of the press run...
ref: 1994, Designed to Sell, →ISBN:
text: The practice of overposting for the purpose of assuring suffcient advertising exposures for fulfilling the terms of contracts with advertisers will be permitted provided, however, that the required number of spaces for public service advertising are maintained as available and that any overposting above fifteen percent (15%) of the contracted space sold shall require prior authorization in writing by the Contracting Office.
ref: 1998, Beverly R. Silverberg, Transit Advertising Revenue: Traditional and New Sources and Structures, →ISBN:
glosses: To place a poster so that it covers all or part of another poster.
examples: text: The major problem here is the approach of using the domain object directly as the parameter for the action method that allows a user to overpost.
ref: 2013, Badrinarayanan Lakshmiraghavan, Pro ASP.NET Web API Security: Securing ASP.NET Web API, →ISBN, page 349:
text: The Bind attribute is used to protect against overposting attacks by creating a list of safe properties to update; however, as we will discuss later, it does not work as expected and so it is safer to use a different method for editing or creating where some values may be blank. As an example of overposting, consider a scenario where the price is submitted as part of the request when a user submits an order for a product. An overposting attack would attempt to alter this price data by changing the submitted request data in an attempt to buy the product cheaper.
ref: 2016, Lee Naylor, ASP.NET MVC with Entity Framework and CSS, →ISBN, page 19:
text: To protect from overposting attacks, please enable the specific properties you want to bind to.
ref: 2016, Barbara Ford, Dive into Visual Studio 2013, →ISBN, page 38:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To breach security by overwriting data that is not intended for user input.