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 almost 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. Indeed, 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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