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• etiquette: /net'ee-ket/ or /net'i-ket/ [portmanteau from "network etiquette"] n.
  The conventions of politeness recognized on {USENET}, such as avoidance of cross-posting to inappropriate groups and refraining from commercial pluggery outside the biz groups....
• Great Renaming: n. The {flag day} in 1985 on which all of the non-local groups on the {USENET} had their names changed from the net.
  format to the current multiple-hierarchies scheme....
• et.police: /net-p*-lees'/ n. (var. `net.cops') Those USENET readers who feel it is their responsibility to pounce on and {flame} any posting which they regard as offensive or in violation of their understanding of {netiquette}.
  Generally used sarcastically or pejoratively. Also spelled `net police'....
• pam vt.,vi.,n. [from "Monty Python's Flying Circus"] 1.
  To crash a program by overrunning a fixed-size buffer with excessively large input data....
• 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...
• despew: /d*-spyoo'/ [USENET] v. To automatically generate a large amount of garbage to the net, esp.
  from an automated posting program gone wild. See {ARMM}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• voice-net: n. Hackish way of referring to the telephone system, analogizing it to a digital network.
  USENET {sig block}s not uncommonly include the sender's phone next to a "Voice...
• cross-post: [USENET] vi. To post a single article simultaneously to several newsgroups.
  Distinguished from posting the article repeatedly, once to each newsgroup, which causes people to see it multiple times (which is very bad form)....
• con: [from SF fandom] n. A science-fiction convention.
  Not used of other sorts of conventions, such as professional meetings....