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• FidoNet n. A worldwide hobbyist network of personal computers which exchanges mail, discussion groups, and files.
  Founded in 1984 and originally consisting only of IBM PCs and compatibles, FidoNet now includes such diverse machines as Apple ][s, Ataris, Amigas, and Unix systems....
• 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....
• echo: [FidoNet] n. A {topic group} on {FidoNet}'s echomail system.
  Compare {newsgroup}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• dup loop /d[y]oop loop/ (also `dupe loop') n. [FidoNet] An infinite stream of duplicated
  ear-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 killers ineffective....
• USENET: /yoos'net/ or /yooz'net/ [from `Users' Network'] n.
  A distributed {bboard} (bulletin board) system supported mainly by UNIX machines....
• 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....
• hop: 1. n. One file transmission in a series required to get a file from point A to point B on a store-and-forward network.
  On such networks (including {UUCPNET} and {FidoNet}), an important inter-machine metric is the number of hops in the shortest path between them, which can be more significant than their geographical separation....
• Mars n. A legendary tragic failure, the archetypal Hacker Dream Gone Wrong.
  Mars was the code name for a family of PDP-10 compatible computers built by Systems Concepts (now, The SC Group)...
• UUCPNET: n. The store-and-forward network consisting of all the world's connected UNIX machines (and others running some clone of the UUCP (UNIX-to-UNIX CoPy) software).
  Any machine reachable only via a {bang path} is on UUCPNET....