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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 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. 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.
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