Hackish way of referring to the postal service, analogizing it to a
very slow, low-reliability network. Usenet {sig block}s 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}.
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[Reference(s) to this entry by made by: {email}{voice-net}]