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• eakernet /snee'ker-net/ n. Term used (generally with ironic intent) for transfer of electronic information by physically carrying tape
  disks, or some other media from one machine to another....
• 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'....
• pain in the net: n. A {flamer}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary
• 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}....
• ig block: /sig blok/ [UNIX; often written `.sig' there] n.
  Short for `signature', used specifically to refer to the electronic signature block that most UNIX mail- and news-posting software will {automagically} append to outgoing mail and news....
• etwork address: n. (also `net address') As used by hackers, means an address on `the' network (see {network, the}
  his is almost always a {bang path} or {{Internet 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...
• 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...
• et.-: /net dot/ pref. [USENET] Prefix used to describe people and events related to USENET.
  From the time before the {Great Renaming}, when most non-local newsgroups had names beginning `net....