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• ICBM address n. (Also `missile address') The form used to register a site with the Usenet mapping projec
  back before the day of pervasive Internet, included a blank for longitude and latitude, preferably to seconds-of-arc accuracy....
• missile address n. See ICBM address.
• paper-net: n. Hackish way of referring to the postal service, analogizing it to a very slow, low-reliability network.
  USENET {sig block}s sometimes include a "Paper-Ne...
• eergrube /teer'groob/ n. [German for `tar pit'] A trap set to punish spammers who use an address harveste
  a mail server deliberately set up to be really, really slow....
• CI$: // n. Hackerism for `CIS', CompuServe Information Service.
  The dollar sign refers to CompuServe's rather steep line charges....
• mailing list n. (often shortened in context to `list') 1.
  An email address that is an alias (or macro, though that word is never used in this connection) for many other email addresses....
• etwork address n. (also `net address') As used by hackers, means an address on `the' network (see the network
  his used to include Internet address). Net addresses are often used in email text as a more concise substitute for personal name...
• accumulator: n. 1. Archaic term for a register. On-line use of it as a synonym for `register' is a fairly reliable indication that the user has been around for quite a while and/or that the architecture under discussion is quite old.
  The term in full is almost never used of microprocessor registers, for example, though symbolic names for arithmetic registers beginning in `A' derive from historical use of the term `accumulator' (and not, actually, from `arithmetic')....
• flat: adj. 1. Lacking any complex internal structure.
  That {bitty box} has only a flat filesystem, not a hierarchical one....