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• et.god /net god/ n. Accolade referring to anyone who satisfies some combination of the following conditio
  has been visible on Usenet for more than 5 years, ran one of the original backbone sites, moderated an important newsgroup, wrote news software, or knows Gene, Mark, Rick, Mel, Henry, Chuq, and Greg personally....
• demigod: n. A hacker with years of experience, a national reputatio
  and a major role in the development of at least one design, tool, or game used by or known to more than half of the hacker community....
• Imminent Death Of The Net Predicted!: [USENET] prov.
  Since {USENET} first got off the ground in 1980--81, it has grown exponentially, approximately doubling in size every year....
• 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....
• 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.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'....
• 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....
• pain in the net: n. A {flamer}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary
• BIFF: /bif/ [USENET] n. The most famous {pseudo}, and the prototypical {newbie}.
  Articles from BIFF are characterized by all uppercase letters sprinkled liberally with bangs, typos, `cute' misspellings (EVRY BUDY LUVS GOOD OLD BIFF CUZ HE"S A K00L DOOD AN HE RITES REEL AWESUM THINGZ IN CAPITULL LETTRS LIKE THIS!...