Related:

• echo [FidoNet] n. A topic group on FidoNet's echomail system. Compare newsgroup.
• 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...
• dup killer: /d[y]oop kill'r/ [FidoNet] n. Software that is supposed to detect and delete duplicates of a message that may have reached the FidoNet system via different routes.
  -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• dup loop: /d[y]oop loop/ (also `dupe loop') [FidoNet] n.
  An infinite stream of duplicated, near-identical messages on a FidoNet {echo}, the only difference being unique or mangled identification information applied by a faulty or incorrectly configured system or network gateway, thus rendering {dup killer}s ineffective....
• ysop: /sis'op/ n. [esp. in the BBS world] The operator (and usually the owner) of a bulletin-board system.
  A common neophyte mistake on {FidoNet} is to address a message to `sysop' in an international {echo}, thus sending it to hundreds of sysops around the world....
• Snooze: /snooz/ [FidoNet] n. Fidonews, the weekly official on-line newsletter of FidoNet.
  As the editorial policy of Fidonews is "anything that arrives, we print", there are often large articles completely unrelated to FidoNet, which in turn tend to elicit {flamage} in subsequent issues....
• File Request: [FidoNet] 1. n. The {FidoNet} equivalent of {FTP}, in which one BBS system automatically dials another and {snarf}s one or more files.
  Often abbreviated `FReq'; files are often announced as being "available for FReq" in the same way that files are announced as being "available for/by anonymous FTP" on the Internet....
• Matrix: [FidoNet] n. 1. What the Opus BBS software and sysops call {FidoNet}.
  2. Fanciful term for a {cyberspace} expected to emerge from current networking experiments (see {network, the})....
• File Attach: [FidoNet] 1. n. A file sent along with a mail message from one BBS to another.
  2. vt. Sending someone a file by using the File Attach option in a BBS mailer....