Paper-net

2 definitions found

From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:

  paper-net n. 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}, {P-mail}.
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  paper-net
       
          {snail mail}