net.-: /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 boink, sense
2), and many similar constructs. See also net.police.