2014-04-26 14:52:28 +00:00
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paper-net
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2014-04-26 15:54:15 +00:00
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n. Hackish way of referring to the postal service, analogizing it to a very
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2014-07-26 07:53:53 +00:00
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slow, low-reliability network. Usenet sig blocks sometimes include a
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Paper-Net: header just before the sender's postal address; common variants
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of this are Papernet and P-Net. Note that the standard netiquette guidelines
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discourage this practice as a waste of bandwidth, since netters are quite
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unlikely to casually use postal addresses. Compare voice-net , snail-mail.
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