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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....
• 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....
• 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'....
• 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'....
• Great Renaming n. The flag day in 1987 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....
• 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....
• paper-net n. Hackish way of referring to the postal service, analogizing it to a very slow, low-reliability network.
  Usenet sig blocks sometimes include a "Paper-Ne...
• 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...
• Dear Emily: How can I choose what groups to post in?
  -- Confused Dear Confused: Pick as many as you can, so that you get the widest audience....