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paper-net
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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, P-mail.
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