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  • See communications net, communications network.
  • . - /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, sense 2. and many similar constructs. See also net. police.