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• NSP /N-S-P/ n. Common abbreviation for `Network Service Provider'
  one of the big national or regional companies that maintains a portion of the Internet backbone and resells connectivity to ISPs....
• BBS /B-B-S/ n. [common; abbreviation, `Bulletin Board System'] An electronic bulletin board system
  hat is, a message database where people can log in and leave broadcast messages for others grouped (typically) into topic groups....
• BBS: /B-B-S/ [abbreviation, `Bulletin Board System'] n.
  An electronic bulletin board system; that is, a message database where people can log in and leave broadcast messages for others grouped (typically) into {topic group}s....
• he network n. 1. Historicaslly, the union of all the major noncommercial
  academic, and hacker-oriented networks, such as Internet, the pre-1990 ARPANET, NSFnet, BITNET, and the virtual UUCP and Usenet `networks', plus the corporate in-house networks and commercial time-sharing services (such as CompuServe, GEnie and AOL) that gateway to them....
• IDP /I-D-P/ v.,n. [Usenet] Abbreviation for Internet Death Penalty.
  Common (probably now more so and frequently verbed. Compare UDP....
• erver: n. A kind of {daemon} that performs a service for the requester and which often runs on a computer other than the one on which the server runs.
  A particularly common term on the Internet, which is rife with `name servers', `domain servers', `news servers', `finger servers', and the like....
• Internet n. The mother of all networks. First incarnated beginning in 1969 as the ARPANET, a U.
  S. Department of Defense research testbed. Though it has been widely believed that the goal was to develop a network architecture for military command-and-control that could survive disruptions up to and including nuclear war, this is a myth...
• erver n. A kind of daemon that performs a service for the requester and which often runs on a computer other than the one on which the server runs.
  A particularly common term on the Internet, which is rife with `web servers', `name servers', `domain servers', `news servers', `finger servers', and the like....
• pamhaus spam'hows n. Pejorative term for an internet service provider that permits or even encourages spam mailings from its systems.
  The plural is `spamhausen'. There is a web page devoted to tracking spamhausen....