paper-net n.
Hackish way of referring to the postal
service, analogizing it to a very slow, low-reliability network.
Usenet sig blocks sometimes include a "Paper-Net:" header
just before the sender's postal address; common variants of this
are "Papernet" and "P-Net". Note that the standard
netiquette guidelines discourage this practice as a waste of
bandwidth, since netters are quite unlikely to casually use postal
addresses. Compare voice-net, snail-mail,
Hackish way of referring to the postal
service, analogizing it to a very slow, low-reliability network.
Usenet sig blocks sometimes include a "Paper-Net:" header
just before the sender's postal address; common variants of this
are "Papernet" and "P-Net". Note that the standard
netiquette guidelines discourage this practice as a waste of
bandwidth, since netters are quite unlikely to casually use postal
addresses. Compare voice-net, snail-mail,
Related:
- paper-net: n. Hackish way of referring to the postal service,
analogizing it to a very slow, low-reliability network... - voice-net: n. Hackish way of referring to the telephone system,
analogizing it to a digital network. USENET {sig block}s... - voice-net n.
Hackish way of referring to the telephone
system,
analogizing it to a digital network. Usenet sig blocks... - email: /ee'mayl/ (also written `e-mail') 1. n. Electronic mail
automatically passed through computer networks and/or via modems
over common-carrier lines.
Contrast {snail-mail}, {paper-net}, {voice-net}... - snail-mail n.
Paper mail, as opposed to electronic.
Sometimes written as the single word `SnailMail'. ... - snail-mail: n. Paper mail, as opposed to electronic.
Sometimes written as the single word `SnailMail'... - email /ee'mayl/
(also written `e-mail' and `E-mail')
1.
n. Electronic mail automatically passed through computer... - You know you've been hacking too long when...
...you check your email more often than your paper mail,
and you remember your network address faster than your... - sig block: /sig blok/ [UNIX; often written `.sig' there] n.
Short for `signature', used specifically to refer to...
