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• Fight-o-net n. [FidoNet] Deliberate distortion of FidoNet, often applied after a flurry of flamage in a particular echo, especially the SYSOP echo or Fidonews (see 'Snooze).
• 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....
• echo: [FidoNet] n. A {topic group} on {FidoNet}'s echomail system.
  Compare {newsgroup}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• 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....
• ysop: /sis'op/ n. [esp. in the BBS world] The operator (and usually the owner) of a bulletin-board system.
  A common neophyte mistake on {FidoNet} is to address a message to `sysop' in an international {echo}, thus sending it to hundreds of sysops around the world....
• echo [FidoNet] n. A topic group on FidoNet's echomail system. Compare newsgroup.
• 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....
• ysop /sis'op/ n. [esp. in the BBS world] The operator (and usually the owner) of a bulletin-board system.
  A common neophyte mistake on FidoNet is to address a message to `sysop' in an international echo, thus sending it to hundreds of sysops around the world....
• Matrix: [FidoNet] n. 1. What the Opus BBS software and sysops call {FidoNet}.
  2. Fanciful term for a {cyberspace} expected to emerge from current networking experiments (see {network, the})....