netter n.
1. Loosely, anyone with a network address. 2. More
specifically, a Usenet regular. Most
often found in the plural. "If you post that in a
technical group, you're going to be flamed by angry netters for
the rest of time!"
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network address n.
(also `net address') As used by hackers, means an address on
`the' network (see the
network; this used to include bang path addresses but now almost always
implies an Internet
address). Net addresses are often used in email text as a
more concise substitute for personal names; indeed, hackers may
come to know each other quite well by network names without ever
learning each others' `legal' monikers. Indeed, display of a
network address (e.g on business cards) used to function as an
important hacker identification signal, like lodge pins among
Masons or tie-dyed T-shirts among Grateful Dead fans. In the day
of pervasive Internet this is less true, but you can still be
fairly sure that anyone with a network address handwritten on his
or her convention badge is a hacker.