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• et.personality /net per`sn-al'-*-tee/ n. Someone who has made a name for him or herself on Usene
  hrough either longevity or attention-getting posts, but doesn't meet the other requirements of net....
• pain in the net: n. A {flamer}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary
• 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....
• 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'....
• 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...
• 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....
• etdead: [IRC] n. The state of someone who signs off {IRC}, perhaps during a {netburp}, and doesn't sign back on until later.
  In the interim, he is "dead to the net". -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• etwork, the: n. 1. The union of all the major noncommercial
  academic, and hacker-oriented networks, such as Internet, the old ARPANET, NSFnet, {BITNET}, and the virtual UUCP and {USENET} `networks', plus the corporate in-house networks and commercial time-sharing services (such as CompuServe) that gateway to them....
• IYFEG: // [USENET] Abbreviation for `Insert Your Favorite Ethnic Group'.
  Used as a meta-name when telling ethnic jokes on the net to avoid offending anyone....