Related:

• pain in the net n. A flamer.
• flamer: n. One who habitually {flame}s. Said esp. of obnoxious {USENET} personalities.
  -- 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...
• asbestos cork award: n. Once, long ago at MIT, there was a {flamer} so consistently obnoxious that another hacker designed
  had made, and distributed posters announcing that said flamer had been nominated for the `asbestos cork award'....
• ewgroup wars: /n[y]oo'groop worz/ [USENET] n. The salvos of dueling `newgroup' and `rmgroup' messages sometimes exchanged by persons on opposite sides of a dispute over whether a {newsgroup} should be created net-wide
  or (even more frequently) whether an obsolete one should be removed....
• 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'....
• etsplit: n. Syn. {netburp}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary
• kulker: n. Syn. {prowler}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary
• Fight-o-net: [FidoNet] n. Deliberate distortion of {FidoNet}, often applied after a flurry of {flamage} in a particular {echo}, especially the SYSOP echo or Fidonews (see {'Snooze}).
  -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...