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• ead-only user: n. Describes a {luser} who uses computers almost exclusively for reading USENET, bulletin boards, and/or email, rather than writing code or purveying useful information.
  See {twink}, {terminal junkie}, {lurker}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• erminal junkie n. [UK] A wannabee or early larval stage hacker who spends mos directory tree and writing noddy programs just to get a fix of computer time.
  Variants include `terminal jockey', `console junkie', and console jockey....
• erminal junkie: [UK] n. A {wannabee} or early {larval stage} hacker who spends most of his or her time wandering the directory tree and writing {noddy} programs just to get a fix of computer time.
  Variants include `terminal jockey', `console junkie', and {console jockey}....
• ourist: [ITS] n. A guest on the system, especially one who generally logs in over a network from a remote location for {comm mode}, email, games, and other trivial purposes.
  One step below {luser}. Hackers often spell this {turist}, perhaps by some sort of tenuous analogy with {luser} (this also expresses the ITS culture's penchant for six-letterisms)....
• ourist n. 1. [ITS] A guest on the system, especially one who generally logs in over a network from a remote location for comm mode, email, games, and other trivial purposes.
  One step below luser. ITS hackers often used to spell this turist, perhaps by some sort of tenuous analogy with luser (this usage may also have expressed the ITS culture's penchant for six-letterisms, and-or been some sort of tribute to Alan Turing)....
• console jockey n. See terminal junkie.
• wink: /twink/ [UCSC] n. Equivalent to {read-only user}.
  Also reported on the USENET group soc.motss; may derive from gay slang for a cute young thing with nothing upstairs (compare mainstream `chick')....
• followup n. [common] On Usenet, a posting generated in response to another posting (as opposed to a reply, which goes by email rather than being broadcast).
  Followups include the ID of the parent message in their heade...
• followup: n. On USENET, a {posting} generated in response to another posting (as opposed to a {reply}, which goes by email rather than being broadcast).
  Followups include the ID of the {parent message} in their heade...