net.- /net dot/ pref.
[Usenet] Prefix used to describe people and events related to
Usenet. From the time before the Great Renaming, when most non-local
newsgroups had names beginning `net.'. Includes net.gods, `net.goddesses' (various charismatic
net.women with circles of on-line admirers), `net.lurkers' (see
lurker), `net.person', `net.parties'
(a synonym for boink, sense 2), and
many similar constructs. See also net.police.