(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.
[glossary]
[Reference(s) to this entry by made by: {@-party}{email}{netter}{person of no account}{sitename}{the network}{You know you've been hacking too long when}]