May 15, 2003

paper-net

n.

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

Posted by Jargon File at May 15, 2003 10:35 AM

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